Annotations upon all the New Testament Philologicall and Theologicall: LEIGH (Edward).

Wherein The Emphasis and Elegancie of the Greeke is observed. Some Imperfections in our Translation are discovered. Divers Jewish Rites and Customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned. Many Antilogies and seeming Contradictions reconciled. Severall darke and Obscure Places opened. Sundry Passages vindicated from the false glosses of Papists and Hereticks. By Edward Leigh, Master of Arts of both Universities.

Title printed in red and black.

First Edition. Folio. [293 x 185 x 39 mm]. [5]ff, 141, [1] pp, 142-147ff, 147-152ff, 154-171, 185-374, 553-628, [12] pp. Bound in contemporary calf, the covers with a blind double fillet border. The spine divided into five panels by raised bands flanked by (later?) gilt fillets, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label ("Leigh / On The N / Testamen"), plain endleaves, red edges. (Split at head of upper joint, lower headcap broken, a little rubbed and marked, lacking rear free endleaf).
London: printed by W.W. and E.G. for William Lee, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Turk's-Head in Fleetstreet next to the Miter and Phoenix, 1650.

Wing L.986

The book has been well used, with some soiling, a few minor stains and marginal tears, and loss of a small chunk of text at outer edge of pp 555-558. The binding has stood up well, and the spine is lined with a very intriguing strip of earlier vellum manuscript waste. There is a pencil note by Stephen Clark on the front free endleaf: "This book was sent to ALB Co Ltd about 1950 or a little before, with many others, for pulping. The man on the pulper asked Chas Gray whether they should pulp them".

There is an ink inscription opposite the title: "M.P. for Stafford & Colonel in the Parliamentary army. Expelled from the House in 1648 with other Presbyterian Members - died 1671 [at Rushall Hall, Staffordshire] - Sir Edward Leigh". The verso of the Epistle lists "the names of such Bookes as this Authour hath formerly written", numbering five. The numbering of the pages is absurd, but corresponds to the collation in ESTC.

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