INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF POLYGLOT BIBLES, GREEK BIBLES AND GREEK TESTAMENTS; THE GREEK FATHERS, AND THE LATIN FATHERS.|AN

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Published by Harding and Lepard and G.B. Whittaker, London, 1827

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small 4to. modern cloth, brown leather spine labels, all edges gilt. (iv), xiii, 562; (iv), 580 pages. 2 volumes. Fourth edition, greatly enlarged and corrected; one of 250 large paper copies. (Windle A3d; Bigmore & Wyman I, 171; Jackson no.6, Besterman 1374; Disbound and Dispersed #1 for tipped-in leaf). Published with the same frontispiece as those in the second and third edition. Completely rewritten, this edition omits several sections provided in previous editions, while adding for the first time the information on the polyglot, Hebrew and Greek Bibles and the Greek and Latin Fathers. On page 166, Vol. I, there is an actual tipped in specimen leaf from Pickering's Diamond Edition of the Greek New Testament. Still a useful reference tool and difficult to find in the fourth edition. Describes approximately 3,500 items, about 500 more than the previous edition. Spine labels rubbed. modern cloth, brown leather spine labels, all edges gilt.

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• Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF POLYGLOT BIBLES, GREEK BIBLES AND GREEK TESTAMENTS; THE GREEK FATHERS, AND THE LATIN FATHERS.|AN
• Publisher: Harding and Lepard and G.B. Whittaker, London
• Publication Date: 1827
• Binding: Hardcover
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