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Quarto Greek New Testament
He Kaine Diatheke. [In Greek] Novum Testamentum, juxta exemplar Millianum. Typis Joannis Baskerville.
Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, Sumptibus Academiae, 1763.
Oner of 500 done in 4to. Title and half-title in Greek & Latin, body text in Greek. pp. [8], 415, [1]. 1 vols. 4to (11-1/2 x 9 inches). Quarto Greek New Testament. Contemporary brown morocco, rebacked, with original spine neatly laid down. Bookplate of Horace Brock Gaskell Add. 2; ESTC T94889; D&M 4756. Item #320510
Printed in the only typeface Baskerville designed apart from his Roman type, and cut entirely by him over a period of two years. Commissioned by Oxford University Press, which accepted Baskerville’s proposal for casting a set of new Greek types, Baskerville completed the types in 1761, and “on 23rd June the Delegates ordered 500 copies in Quarto and 2,000 in Octavo to be printed.”.
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