Andrew Myers writes of the set, " I ... highly recommend "The Spurgeon Collection," which is a valuable resource for all students of God's Word. To have access to the commentaries that Spurgeon reviewed, many of Spurgeon's own works, and a compendium of classic Puritan literature at one's fingertips is an opportunity not to be neglected. Tolle lege! " (Here is the full review)
We have been busy preparing a DVD set which comprises all the downloadable works on this website, and very many additional works not yet on the website. Of course the works on the website are free to download, and so you could spend the time downloading them yourself. However, busy people just do not have the time to download the sheer volume of works on this website, and so we have done the hard work for you. We have priced the DVDs to try and cover our costs, which includes the not inconsiderable time that has been invested in locating the works in the first place, in creating the website and also the costs of producing the DVDs.
There are 10 DVDs and the special introductory price
for the first 100 orders is £155($250) for the set of 10 with postage and packing charged at cost. That is just £15.50 ($25) per DVD!
So why not place your order now?! This will make a wonderful Christmas present for those who are serious Bible students.
All subsequent orders will be charged the full price of £199 ($325) for the set. Postage and Packing will be charged at cost on all orders.
For those people who registered their interest in the DVD set by the 21 November 2009, the special price of £155 will remain open until 30 June 2010. Thereafter the price will revert to the full price of £199 per set, excluding postage and packing.
The set will comprise The Puritan Library, Spurgeon's own works (which include in its entirety The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit set and many volumes of the Sword and Trowel Magazine) with some other works he recommended, Commenting and Commentaries, with digital works of the works where ever we have been able to locate them, and a folder containing the Bibles that we have highlighted in our blog recently. The set represents a priceless collection of books that would otherwise cost thousands of pounds, not to speak of the shelf space they would occupy! We have also used the latest technology and our readers should be aware that the products are best viewed using the latest version of Adobe reader.
To place an order please use the "buy now" button at the top of this page.
If you do not wish to purchase the whole set, but are interested to buy only a few of the DVDs, then please use the contact page to place the order, providing us with details of the DVDs that you wish to purchase and the address to which these should be sent. The price per DVD will be the ruling price at the date of the order divided by 10, and we shall send you an invoice to indicate the post inclusive price. Once we have cleared funds, we shall ship the order.
FREE SPURGEON RECOMMENDED COMMENTARIES!!
About
this website
Ever
since C. H. Spurgeon published his catalogue “Commenting and
Commentaries” in 1876 it has been, for theological students in the
reformed tradition at least, a standard reference tool in the choice of
commentaries.
Sadly
however, the large established book publishers have over the last 15 to
20 years moved away from printing the variety of older reformed
commentaries which they once used to and although smaller publishers
have tried to fill the gap, their valiant efforts still leave us with
huge gaps.
A few
years ago some internet companies, principally GOOGLE and MICROSOFT
commenced the process of producing digital versions of old and
antiquarian books. Of course since the fair proportion of books printed
in Victorian and pre-Victorian times were of a religious character, we
find that they have digitized many of the commentaries which were
recommended by Spurgeon.
We were pleasantly surprised to find just how many of the works
recommended by Spurgeon, which are very difficult, if not impossible to
find in the second hand and antiquarian book market, now exist in
digital format. And that gave rise to the idea of this website.
We have
therefore reproduced Spurgeon’s
“Commenting and Commentaries”, and then provided links to
the digital versions where we know of their existence. Most of the
digital versions exist as “pdf” files and one would therefore need to
download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files.
If you do not have Adobe Reader you can download the latest reader free of charge from Adobe
Some
files exist as “html” pages only. These are from sites which have
reproduced the text of the work as a web page.
User
options
Generally
speaking, Microsoft works can be downloaded and viewed on one's
computer before saving BUT we only provide a "save download" option for
Google books. The "save download" option is not possible for websites
where the page is only in html format.
All the
books with links are, as far as we are aware, in the public domain and
there is therefore NO CHARGE for downloading them.
Please
note that some of the files are rather large and may take a while to
load/download depending on the speed of your internet connection.
Please
also note that sometimes the scans are poor, but still legible. This
applies in the main to Google digital works. In the case of some Google
scanned works, we have noticed that there are scanning errors which
prevent the print on certain pages from being read, and that Google
have yet to rectify such errors. Generally speaking the scanning by
Microsoft is of a better quality and that is why their digital works
are as much larger in size.
How
you can help
1. If
you find this site a blessing write to us to let us know. Also write if
you have any suggestions for improvements.
2. If
you find this site a blessing, please recommend it to other Christians.
3. If
you have your own website, or blog, please provide a link from your
site to this site.
4. If
readers of this site should come across other websites which contain
works recommended by Mr Spurgeon for which we have no link, we should
be obliged to them if they will kindly write to us and advise us of the
link.
5. If
readers come across any broken links, please write and let us know.
[N.B. If you wish your website to appear on our links page, please use the contact page to write to us. Please note that we shall only provide links to sites that are clearly Protestant, Reformed and Evangelical in their stance, and which we consider make a unique contribution to the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ.]
We
have other exciting ideas to develop this website. Please therefore
visit us again.
Finally
OUR
BOOK STORE WILL BE BACK SOON AS A SEPARATE WEBSITE!
Please
note that we have not given up selling books. Our store website is
being redeveloped and should be up again in the near future with better
functionality and electronic-commerce capability. If, in the meantime,
you have a wish list please do write to us and we shall advise you
whether we have the books in store.
May the Lord be pleased to bless this modest effort to His Glory.
