1949 ZGb

[A]⁸ B-H⁸.

[7] 2-22 [23] 24-33 [34] 35-58 [59] 60-2 [63] 64-8 [69] 70-1 [72] 73-95 [96] 97-8 [99] 100-20 [+2].

Crown 8^o: 7¼" × 4⅝", trimmed, top edge brown, white laid, Glastonbury; 10(+1)pt. Ehrhardt; one line block illustration for frontispiece; casing, red cloth, gold-blocked up spine: ‘[fillet at head and foot, lettering upward] THE BOOKS OF THE MACCABEES’, and on upper cover over a black ground 1½" × 1¼" gold-blocked mark of the East and West Library; printed dust-jacket.

The 4 books of the Maccabees are normally counted as being outside the canon of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). They originated in the Hellenistic Judaism of Alexandria, but only books I and II are accepted into the Apocrypha of the Christian Bible.

• Ben Sussan, René, 1895–1988
• East and West library
• Ehrhardt
• Ehrhardt, 10pt.
• Horovitz Publishing Company, London