The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, with marginal references and readings, an introduction to the right understanding of the scriptures, the concise dictionary of the Bible explaining every important word, the Psalms in metre with explanatory notes and memoirs of Rev. John Brown and of Drs. Cooke and Porter, with much tabular and instructive matter, together with critical and explanatory notes and practical reflections
by Rev. John Brown, late Minister of the Gospel at Haddington, and Professor of Divinity to the Associate Synod ; with several thousand additional notes by Rev. Henry Cooke, D.D., LL.D., President, Assembly's College, Belfast.
Edition
New edition, with important additions by Rev. J.L. Porter, D.D., LL.D.
At head of title: Brown's self-interpreting Bible--revised, with important additions.
Publication date derived from copyright statement on reverse of main title page .
Additional, chromolithographed title pages precede main title page and the New Testament letterpress title page.
New Testament has additional letterpress title page.
Illustrative matter includes numerous steel engravings within text, twelve steel engraved plates, and eight plates with color maps.
Old and New Testaments paged continuously.
Three chromolithographed plates (2 double-sided) for keeping family records, bound in between Apocrypha and the New Testament.
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From the Collection of the Heritage Center Museum, P95.22.1.
Brubaker family genealogy 1851-1915.
Calligraphy by Wm. Henning.
Rebound by Pleasant View Book Bindery in 1997 preserving partial clasp and original leather covers but no title on new spine.
Publisher's binding: Dark brown morocco over wooden boards with raised beveled panels forming spandrels and two small fields between them on the sides. Beveled title panel in center of cover. Embossed and gilt-stamped floral, foliate, and arabesque ornamentation. Back cover the same as front cover. Spine decorated with five panels gilt-stamped with elaborate foliate ornamentation and one with gilt-stamped title, separated by raised bands, and enclosed at head and tail within gilt-stamped decorative borders. Ornamental gilt-stamped border on turn-ins. Endsheets lined with white paper printed in moire̹ silk pattern. All edges gilt.
The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
