In the early eighteenth century, John Ernest Grabe produced in Oxford an edition of the LXX based on Codex Alexandrinus, which had come to England eighty years earlier (1627) as a gift from Cyril Lucar, at the time the Patriarch of Constantinople. Grabe's edition was published in four volumes, but only the first and the last volume were printed during Grabe's lifetime. The second volume was completed by Francis Lee and the third by William Wigan.
All four volumes are available on Google Books.
vol. 1 (1707), Octateuch
vol. 2 (1719), Historical Books
vol. 3 (1720), Prophets
vol. 4 (1709), Poetical Books
Note that vol. 4 is bound together with vol. 3, so you have to scroll down about halfway to see the title page to vol. 4.
The second volume contains the preface provided by Lee that proposes a theory of an Alexandrian Canon (previously mentioned here, with the exact reference).
By the way, if you want to look at Codex Alexandrinus itself, you can find images of the NT at the British Library website. For the OT, your best bet is the CSNTM website, which has images of the entire facsimile published in 4 vols. by E. M. Thompson in 1879–1880.
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Very useful to me, researching the Anglican Divines Philip & Thomas Bisse. Philip (later Bishop of Hereford etc) was an original subscriber to both the 1707 and 1709 volumes. Thank you, Ed, for all the little snippets on your post that are actually massively valuable!
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