The lost books of the Bible
Subtitle: being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His apostles and their companions, not included, by its compilers, in the authorized New Testament; and, the recently discovered Syriac mss. of Pilate's letters to Tiberius, etc. Translated from the original tongues, illustrated from ancient paintings and missals ...
Contributors: Wake, William, 1657-1737; Hone, William, 1780-1842, editor
Publisher: Alpha Pub. Co.
Published: 1926
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Copyright date: 1926
Work titles: Apocryphal books (New Testament) English (Jones-Wake) 1926
Notes: One plate accompanied by leaf with explanatory key, not included in the pagination.

"Letters of Herod and Pilate": p. 269-281.

"A list of all the apocryphal pieces not now extant, mentioned by writers in the first four centuries of Christ, with the several works wherein they are cited or noticed. [By the Rev. Jeremiah Jones]": p. 282-285.

"A list of the Christian authors of the first four centuries, whose writings contain catalogues of the books of the New Testament. [By the Rev. Jeremiah Jones]": p. 286-288.

William Hone's edition, first published 1820 under title "The apocryphal New Testament," incorporating the translations of Jeremiah Jones for the apocryphal books and of Archbishop Wake for the Apostolic fathers. cf. M.R. James. The apocryphal New Testament, p. xv.