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Book Description

two vols set folio (15'') bound in dark blue cloth gilt rubbed at extremities, bindings unmatched, binding tight and sound and given the weight of the volumes remarkable, printed with two colums per leaf, ex-college library with usual stamps and labels, light scattered spotting, contemporary ownership signature to title page of vol. I, creases to early leaves of vol. II, lacking final end-paper to vol II, text in syriac and latin, a monumental work in syriac studies and indispensible for serious scholars
Author R. Payne Smith
Date 1879 & 1901
Binding hardback, publisher's blue cloth gilt
Publisher Oxford: Clarendon Press
Condition good
Pages [x] 1863; xiv 4516pp

Price: £600.00

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