Item Description: | One plated accompanied by sheet with explanatory key. - William Hone's edition, first published 1820, incorporating the translations of Jeremiah Jones for the Apocryphal books and of Arch-bishop Wake for the Apostolic fathers. cf. M. R. James, The apocryphal New Testament, p. XV. - "A list of all the apocryphal pieces not now extant, mentioned by writers in the first four centuries of Christ, with the several works wherein they are cited or noticed. [By the Rev. Jeremiah Jones]": p. 269-272. - "A list of the Christian authors of the first four centuries, whose writings contain catalogues of the books of the New Testament. [By the Rev. Jeremiah Jones]": p. 273-275
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