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[BIBLE IN GREEK]. [NEW TESTAMENT]. [Greek title.] Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio Hellenistica. London: Pickering, 1843.

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[BIBLE IN GREEK]. [NEW TESTAMENT]. [Greek title.] Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio Hellenistica. London: Pickering, 1843. Two volumes, 8vo. xii, ,781. [1]; [4], pp. 783-1493, [1], [1, errata with blank verso]. Title-pages in black and red, with Pickering anchor and dolphin device. Includes the editor's preface, Apparatus Hellenisticus (a list of books consulted), the text, with running commentary, followed by a list of Citata et parallela. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind and with blindstamped leaf and cross ornaments, black and burgundy morocco spine labels, edges stained red. FIRST EDITION THUS. 

Condition

Binding extremities rubbed in places, former owner's signature, dated 1890. A few neat ink marginal notations in Greek. A very good set. 

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The "Hellenistic Edition" was edited by Edward William Grinfield (1785-1864), who founded and endowed an Oxford lectureship on the Septuagint in 1859. Darlow and Moule 4835. Keynes, p. 81.