Greek Noum Testamentum [[New Testament]]

Greek Novum Testamentum [[New Testament]]. 1714. Londini (London): Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts. 8vo (4.625" x 7.5") (x), (428) pp. Signed binding by Clarke & Bedford. Full red pebbled leather with fancy gilt rule framing boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to brown leather in second compartment, gilt "Londini 1714" towards foot. Heavy gilt decorative devices and frames fill all other compartments. Re-backed using original spine leather and boards. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, hinges strengthened with red book tape. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignettes to both title pages. Intermittent spots of foxing, mostly marginal. Text in Latin to preface, Greek throughout. Extra wide margins to text pages, text in two columns. A beautiful book, re-backed using original leather.