George Offor
George Offor was an English book-collector who accumulated a massive personal library.
Offor entered business as a bookseller at Tower Hill, London. He studied Hebrew, Greek and Latin and became an expert in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and theological writings.
Offor died at his home, Grove House, Grove Street, South Hackney, London, on 4 August 1864, and was buried in Abney [Park Cemetery], Stoke Newington.
Works
John Bunyan
He had compiled the complete works of John Bunyan. However some of them were destroyed in a fire.He spent his days reading, researching, recording, comparing, and editing the works of Bunyan. Offor's diligent labour concluded in 1854 with the printing of the three-volume, 2,800 page Works of John Bunyan. Now over a century and a half old, Offor's final product remains the most popular definitive collection of Bunyan in print.