Nouveau testament

1763 · DC8_2013 — e typographeo Clarendoniano sumptibus academiae Oxonii. Clarendon Press Oxford: . 1763 pp. 4 415 1. Small age and damp stains to the first and last 40 leaves or so. Wide margined. Large 4to. 300mm. All edges gold gilt. Early plain full vellum binding. Marbled endpapers. Hand lettered ownership of: J.M Hicks Winton September 1910. Sole quarto printing of the Greek New Testament using Baskerville type i.e. Greek type that Baskerville designed and cut himself. The text follows the 1707 edition by John Mill 1645-1707 with seven variations. This quarto edition was limited to 500 copies and is much scarcer than the 8vo edition issued around the same time. Gaskell - Add. 1; Darlow & Moule 4755. John Baskerville 1706-1775 was the greatest printer of his era. Born in Wolverley Hereford - Worcester England he became a writing master in Birmingham. He also carried on a successful japanning varnishing business there. In about 1750 he began to make experiments in letter founding and produced the wonderful series of types now named after him. His first book the Virgil of 1757 was also the first to be printed upon wove paper manufactured by a process that he invented. In 1758 he became printer to Cambridge University. There he designed other fonts including his remarkable Greek type. All of his books bear the marks of fine craftsmanship and a refined sense of design.PRICE JUST REDUCED! All other examples of this edition are priced on-line at over $1000.00! I held this in my own bible collection since 1995. It is a great bargain. SAFE ADD 1. Hardcover. Very Good. e typographeo Clarendoniano, sumptibus academiae, Oxonii. (Clarendon Press, Oxford): . hardcover