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[BIBLIA GRAECA]

He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum, juxta exemplar Millianum. Typis Joannis Baskerville
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1763
€450 - €600

8vo, [4]-676 pp, Half title and title in Greek and Latin, text in Greek. (some spotting to first lvs.) Contemp. goldtooled tree calf (corner sl. bumped), covers with triple ornamental border, richly gilt spine (spine neatly repaired)

Ref. Darlow & Moule, II 4756 ; Brunet V, 740. "The only major work produced in John Baskerville's "great primer" Greek type, issued simultaneously in 8vo and 4to eds. After the success of his Virgil in 1758, Baskerville [1706-1775] was commissioned to produce a new Greek type for the Clarendon Press in 1758" (Quaritch). The Greek text is that edited by John Mill (1645-1707)

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