Description
Binding.- Bible, Greek.- He kaine diatheke [graecé] Novum Testamentum, John William Burgon's copy and inscribed by him in Latin to William Francis Rose on front free endpaper, bound in contemporary burgundy straight-grain morocco, by Hayes of Oxford, covers with onlays of tan, red & green morocco and elaborately tooled in gilt against a background of gilt scalloped netting, spine with tooled onlays, t.e.g., joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, Cambridge & London, 1873.
⁂ John William Burgon (1813-88), Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876, known for his resolute defence of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of biblical inerrancy in general.
Lot 65
Binding.- Bible, Greek.- He kaine diatheke [graecé], contemporary burgundy morocco with onlaid shapes of tan, red & green morocco and elaborately tooled in gilt, Cambridge & London, 1873.
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Binding.- Bible, Greek.- He kaine diatheke [graecé] Novum Testamentum, John William Burgon's copy and inscribed by him in Latin to William Francis Rose on front free endpaper, bound in contemporary burgundy straight-grain morocco, by Hayes of Oxford, covers with onlays of tan, red & green morocco and elaborately tooled in gilt against a background of gilt scalloped netting, spine with tooled onlays, t.e.g., joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, Cambridge & London, 1873.
⁂ John William Burgon (1813-88), Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876, known for his resolute defence of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of biblical inerrancy in general.