Sometimes, I just can't help myself.

For the past year or so, I've been looking off and on for a set of Lightfoot's Apostolic Fathers volumes. No, not the one-volume Lightfoot/Harmer edition that was published after Lightfoot's death. I'm talking about the five volume set:

• Apostolic Fathers Part I: Clement of Rome (vol. I): 496 pages, including a complete 'autotype' (facsimile) of the "Constantinopolitan MS', the only complete witness to both letters of Clement in the Greek. It's a 50 pages of miniscule and it is awesome. It makes me want to take a course in paleography.
• Apostolic Fathers Part I: Clement of Rome (vol. II): 532 pages, with the Greek text, apparatus, notes, and translations of the letters. Several extended citations from parallels found in other MSS or mentions of Clement as well.
• Apostolic Fathers Part II: Ignatius and Polycarp (vol. I): 739 pages, with background information, quotations, parallels, info on MSS of Ignatius and Polycarp.
• Apostolic Fathers Part II: Ignatius and Polycarp (vol. II, §1): 584 pages. Greek texts, notes, apparatus, translations and introductions to the Ignatian epistles. 
• Apostolic Fathers Part II: Ignatius and Polycarp (vol. II, §2): 530 pages. An appendix to the Ignatian letters, with fragments and alternate recension in Latin, Syriac, Coptic and Arabic. A beautiful book. Also the Greek text, notes, apparatus, etc. for the Polycarp material.

Well, I spotted vol II §§1&2 of part II listed by a bookseller in London. I sent an inquiry asking if they had the other volumes available as I was interested in the set. They were able to cobble together a set of the five volumes, and next thing I know they were winging their way to me across the Atlantic. I wasn't expecting them for about another week, so when they arrived today it was a complete (and welcomed) surprise.

These books are just plain cool. I'm looking forward to being able to consult them and also working through the material. Polycarp first, at some point, and I'll figure out the rest after that.