AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS.
Together with an account of polyglot Bibles, polyglot Psalters, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek fathers, and the Latin fathers. Fourth edition; greatly enlarged and corrected. In two volumes. Pp. [iv]+xiv+562+[iv]+580, 1 engraved plate and small mounted specimen leaf Volume I, corrigenda at end of Volume II; impl. 8vo; half dark green morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards; edges slightly rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; marbled endpapers; ribbon markers; bookplate on upper pastedowns, small catalogue slip tipped-in after upper free endpaper Volume I, large water stain to top fore-corner of the engraved plate and a couple of the surrounding leaves, a little light offsetting from the bookmarkers, scattered pale foxing; Harding and Lepard, London, 1827. Fourth edition, large paper copy (one of 250 thus). Windle & Pippin A3d. *Contains much information not found in earlier editions. The plate is a facsimile of a page from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, and the mounted specimen leaf is from Pickering's 1826 Diamond Edition of the Greek New Testament. Item #107222
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