Item Description: | One plate accompanied by leaf with explanatory key, not included in the pagination. - "Letters of Herod and Pilate": p. 269-281. - "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. 282-285. - "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. 286-288. - William Hone's edition, first published 1820 under title "The apocryphal New Testament," incorporating the translations of Jeremiah Jones for the apocryphal books and of Archbishop Wake for the Apostolic fathers. cf. M. R. James. The apocryphal New Testament, p. xv
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