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21 December 2011

A Christmas Surprise & Season's Greetings

Christopher de Hamel delivered an early Christmas present today, thanks to his identification of a young John Waynflete Carter (190575), the great bibliographer and - along with Graham Pollard - exposer of T. J. Wise, as one of at least four previous owners of the Dunedin copy of a Greek New Testament (Oxford, 1675). 

Carter was a student at Eton when he was given this book by the man whose inscription appears above his, the ecclesiastical historian Cuthbert Hamilton Turner (18601930). Turner authored a volume on The Early Printed Editions of the Greek Testament (Oxford, 1924) and watched benevolently over the young Carter, whose inscription is most fitting for this time of year: 'J. W. Carter Eton College, elect of King's Coll Christmas 1923'.


Wishing everyone who has visited Antipodean Footnotes a happy holiday season and all good wishes for a joyous New Year. Here is to more bibliographical discoveries in 2012.


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