The First & Second Books of the Maccabees

Fairweather, W. (editor)

Published by J.M. Dent, London, 1903

About this Item

1903. First edition thus. xxvii, 188pp., and a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Top edge gilt. The 'Temple' Bible was issued in the same format as the publisher's 'Temple Classics' series, which ran from 1896 to 1955, and predated Dent?s Everyman?s Library by a decade. In 31 volumes, it presents the Authorised Version of the Bible as literature, and each volume is edited by a well-known Biblical Scholar and contains an introduction. This volume contains the First and Second Books of the Maccabees. The book is bound in the original limp green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and a blind stamped emblem on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear on the boards and light bumping to the corners and rubbing to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with browing to the free endpapers and a small name label on the front fixed endpaper. The original marker ribbon is present but faded and frayed at the end. Seller Inventory # gVIRel33

Bibliographic Details

Title: The First & Second Books of the Maccabees

Publisher: J.M. Dent, London

Publication Date: 1903

Binding: Green Limp Hardback

Condition: Very Good Plus

Edition: 'Temple' Edition - First Thus