Bible, Greek.- He Kaine Diatheke, 'Mazarin edition', half-title, fine engraved title by Claude Mellan depicting an angel writing on an obelisk and with title itself inscribed on a scroll carried by three cherubs, imprint in Greek at foot, large engraved cul-de-lampe on verso of penultimate f. with the arms of the King Louis XIII, final f. blank, ruled throughout in red, worm trace and a few small holes to margins in places (including preliminaries), marginal water-staining, mostly to lower corners, occasional spotting, 19th century green half morocco, gilt, spine in compartments richly so, rubbed, [D&M 4687], folio (440 x 300mm.), Paris, Royal Printers, [1642]. ⁂ A wide-margined copy of the magnificent edition 'known as the 'Mazarin edition', since it appeared under the auspices of the great Cardinal' (D&M). It is the first edition of the Greek New Testament from the Imprimerie Royale, founded by Louis XIII in 1640. It is a substantial reprint, with a few alterations, of the New Testament printed by the Elzeviers in 1624, adding a 30-page appendix of Variae Lectiones. The text was set in Garamond's Greek types, used by the Estienne dynasty of printers, and which subsequently became part of the type holdings of the Imprimerie Royale