The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint. [ Volumes 1 to 3 ( only, of 6) bound in 5, complete ]

Princeton University Press, Princeton, first editions, vol 1 1986; vol II 1999; vol III 1941-42. 3 vols in 5, cloth, gilt cover device, large 4to,. vol I: xiii, 250 pp, 8 colour plates, 538 b/w ills; vol II: xvi, 404 pp + 23 colour ills, 1552 b/w ills; vol III: [5], 56 pp, 73 plates + xv, 53pp, 58 plates. The first 3 volumes (only) of the 6 volume set, comprising 5 books, as follows: Volume I: The Cotton Genesis: British Library Codex Cotton Otho B. VI, by Kurt Weitzmann & Herbert L. Kessler, 1986; Volume II: The Byzantine Octateuchs, in two parts: part 1 Text and Part 2 Plates, by Kurt Weitzmann & Massimo Bernabo, 1999; Volume III: Psalms and Odes, in two parts: Part 1 Vaticanus Graecus 1927 and Part 2 Vaticanus Graecus752, by Ernest T. De Wald, 1941-42. Small booklabel of Dr Egon Wellesz on front pastedown endpaper of each part of Volume II, a Near Very Good set with volumes I and III in slightly soiled and frayed dustwrappers.