The New Testament
Five examples of the New Testament, being:
Beza, Theodoro (ed.). Novum Testamentum, Amsterdam: Apud Iohannem Ianssonium, 1650. 16mo, full vellum; eng title.
Greek New Testament. Samuel Bagster, nd. 8vo, full crushed morocco, boards elaborately panelled in blind, spine likewise, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gauffered edges.
Latin New Testament. Lipsiae: Avenarius et Mendelssohn, 1850. 4to, later brown-leather backed red leather boards.
Shaw, Henry (designer). The New Testament...with engravings on wodd from designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino...and others. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. 4to, full red leather by Riviere, boards ruled in gilt with gilt foliate borders enclosing central blind panel with gilt roundel, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt, a.e.g.; lavishly illustrated with borders to text, vignettes, full-page illustrations and devices. With another identical copy in black leather by Riviere. Herbert 1951 [Herbert is 1864] [5]