1820 The Apocryphal New Testament, Being All the Gospels, Epistles, and Other

The Apocryphal New Testament, Being All the Gospels, Epistles, and Other Pieces Now Extant, Attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles, and Their Companions, and Not Included in the New Testament, by Its Compilers.
Translated from the original tongues and now first collected into one volume.
Printed for William Hone | London | Ludgate Hill
1820

9" x 5.5"
271 pages.

Condition- poor. Pages and covers are completely separated. No pages appear to be missing. Cover has wear especially at the top and bottom.

William Hone was a 19th-century English bookseller who found himself in a censorship fight with the government in 1817. Following that debate Hone produced a series of political satires and controversial works including The Apocryphal New Testament in 1820. This book features several the Canonical New Testament books along with other books written in conjunction with the scriptural text. However, many of the stories found in these books are considerably conne