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1951 St. Mark's Gospel: A New Translation from the Greek
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Description
Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Limited to one thousand two hundred and fifty copies, printed for Christmas 1951. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. With wood engravings by Alan Reynolds Stone, an English wood engraver, engraver, designer, typographer and painter. A new translation of St. Mark's Gospel, the second book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic Gospels from the Greek. Beginning with the baptism of Jesus, this book is known for its concise and action-oriented narrative of Jesus's ministry. Translated by Emile Victor Rieu, a British classicist, publisher, poet and translator. He initiated the Penguin Classics series of books in 1946 and edited it for twenty years.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original glassine wrapper is smart with minor wear to the extremities and sunning to the spine. Minor loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout.
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