The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (1926) is a collection of 17th-century and 18th-century English translations of some Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and New Testament Apocrypha, some of which were assembled in the 1820s, and then republished with the current title in 1926.
Rutherford Hayes Platt, in the preface to his 1964 reprint of The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden states:
"First issued in 1926, this is the most popular collection of apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature ever published."The translations were first published, under this title, by an unknown editor in The Lost Books of the Bible Cleveland 1926, but the translations had previously been published many times.
The book is, essentially, a combined reprint of earlier works. The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New Testament, from a book by Jeremiah Jones (1693–1724), posthumously published in 1736. In the three centuries since these were originally published, a great deal more is known about the Apostolic Fathers (including a good deal of the original text that was not available in 1693) and New Testament Apocrypha.
The second half of the book, The Forgotten Books of Eden, includes a translation originally published in 1882 of the "First and Second Books of Adam and Eve", translated first from ancient Ethiopic to German by Ernest Trumpp and then into English by Solomon Caesar Malan, and a number of items of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, such as reprinted in the second volume of R.H. Charles's Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913).
More modern translations of these works include J. H. Charlesworth, ed. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha; W. Schneemelcher, ed. New Testament Apocrypha; and M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament.
♦ = attributed to the Apostolic Fathers
1 Esdras and 2 Esdras (150-100 BC)
Tobit (200 BC)
Judith (150 BC)
Additions to Esther (Vulgate Esther 10:4 – 16:24) (140-130 BC)
Wisdom of Solomon (30 BC)
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), otherwise known as The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach (132 BC)
Baruch (150-50 BC)
Letter of Jeremiah (300-100 BC)
Song of the Three Children (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children), an addition in the Greek version of Daniel 3 (170-160 BC)
Story of Susanna (Vulgate Daniel 13) (200-0 BC)
The Idol Bel and the Dragon (Vulgate Daniel 14) (100 BC)
Additions to Daniel, or the Prayer of Azariah (200-0 BC)
Prayer of Manasseh (100-0 BC)
1 Maccabees (110 BC)
2 Maccabees (110-170 BC)
Epistle of Barnabas
Assumption of Moses (Testament of Moses)
Book of Enoch
The Odes of Solomon
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
First (and Second) Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
The letter of the Smyrnaeans (also known as The Martyrdom of Polycarp)
The Shepherd of Hermas
The Gospel of Judas (130-170 AD)
Gospel of Thomas (140-170 AD)
The Books of Adam and Eve
The Acts of Phillip
The Apocalypse of Peter
The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary
The Gospel of Nicodemus
The Gospel of the Saviour's Infancy
The History of Joseph the Carpenter
The Acts of Paul (Including Paul and Thecla)
The Seven Epistles of Ignatius
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians