Sibbes, Richard - The Works of Richard Sibbes - 7 Vol. - James Nichol (1862-1864)

This set is part of the original Victorian printings, known as Nichol’s Series of Standard Divines, that C.H. Spurgeon encouraged his frien, James Nichol, to print back during the 1860’s. All sets in the series are becoming increasingly difficult to find complete, particularly with sound, original bindings.

The boards on this set appear to have had the blind stamping/debossing on the covers colored in with dark ink; however, it is tastefully done and does not detract from the attractiveness of the set.

In Vol. 2, 5, 6, and 7, we noticed brief pencil underlining in some of the material, and only a few pages with writing. All of it is in pencil and could potentially be erased with little evidence it was there. No ink marking has been noticed.

Bindings are sound and the pages are quite crisp for their age of nearly 150 years old.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any specific inquiries.

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Via Banner of Truth:

“After William Perkins, ‘the heavenly Doctor Sibbes’ was the most significant of the great Puritan preachers of Cambridge. This reprint of the complete seven-volume set of the Works of Richard Sibbes shows why this is so. Strong thoughts, simple sentences, deep knowledge of the Bible and the human heart and a sure pastoral touch are here revealed in Sibbes’ sustained concentration on the glory and grace of God in Christ.

More than anything else, Sibbes was a great preacher. He never lost sight of the fact that the best Christian counselling is done through the patient and lively exposition of the Word of God. Sibbes excelled as a comforter of the troubled and doubting, but he also possessed the rare gift of illuminating every passage of Scripture he handled by drawing out its significance for his hearers and readers. The republication of the Nichol edition of his complete works is a notable event for all who have an appetite for helpful and faithful biblical preaching.”