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[BIBLE IN GREEK]. [NEW TESTAMENT]. Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, recens nunc editi... London: John Bill, 1622.

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[BIBLE IN GREEK]. [NEW TESTAMENT]. Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, recens nunc editi... [Greek Letter]. London: John Bill, 1622. 8vo. [8], 325, [147] pp. Text in double columns. Printer's mark on title, copied from Robert Estienne's device. Royal arms on verso of title-page. Pages 87 and 317 misnumbered 58 and 297, respectively. Contemporary calf, blindstamped triple rule on covers, edges stained red. Old label on spine, with title in manuscript. THE THIRD GREEK NEW TESTAMENT PRINTED IN ENGLAND. 

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Corners, front joint lightly worn and mildly chipped, some worming to back cover, hinges cracking. Lacks front free endpaper, fore-edge of title browned, expected signs of use for a portable Bible including some toning, soiling in text. Early annotations on title-page. A good, clean copy of a rare book. 

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This Jacobean Greek New Testament is apparently the third Greek New Testament printed in England, following a version printed in 1587 by Thomas Vautrollier and reprinted in 1592. Following the Greek New Testament text are 147 pages of comments and vaiant readings by esteemed scholars Robert Estienne (1503-1559), Joseph Saliger (1540-1609) and Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614). This is an uncommon edition. ESTC notes a number of copies in well established English libraries, but only seven copies in North America (Folger, Harvard, Illinois, Texas, and Wesleyan University, and two copies at the Huntington Library). STC 2795. Not in Darlow and Moule. It is said that permission to use the Estienne printer's device was first granted to the London printer John Norton by Paul Estienne, while on a visit to England, as a mark of admiration for his printing. It was then used by John Bill. See McKerrow, Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England and Scotland, 1485-1640, p. 125. 

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