8vo. [4], 618pp, [2]. With half-title. Contents leaf bound at rear. Finely bound by Stoakley, late Hawes, for Macmillan & Bowes of Cambridge in contemporary black morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, with the supralibros of John Gott, Bishop of Truro to upper board. A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed. Prize bookplate of Joseph Harding White, with the signature of John Gott, to FEP. Manuscript notes listing priests, deacons and critical quotes to verso of FFEP and first blank fly-leaf. Very occasional light spotting, initial leaves lightly browned.

The fifth edition, finely bound and presented as a prize by John Gott, Bishop of Truro (1830-1906), of the New Testament in the original Greek. Also known as the Westcott and Hort text, after its editors, bishop and theologian Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901), and theologian Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892), this comprehensively researched edition marked a turning point in Biblical scholarship, inciting the continued preference for the Alexandrian text-type still seen in critical editions today.