The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. London: Printed for J. Whiston, Baker, and Leigh, W. Strahan, T. Payne, etc. MDCCLXXI (1771).
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The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. London: Printed for J. Whiston, Baker, and Leigh, W. Strahan, T. Payne, etc. MDCCLXXI (1771).
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Includes five plates in volume one including a foldout map, and two foldout plates in volume four. A beautiful edition containing Alexander Pope's translation of both The Iliad and The Odyssey in their complete forms, uniformly bound in full tree calf bindings.
Size: 116 x 182 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[2ff., i-cxi, 200p.]; [title, 300pp.]; [title, 340pp.]; [title, 335pp.]; [title, 234pp., 21pp., 35pp., 14pp.]; [i-xxxvi, 312pp.]; [title, 347pp.]; [title, 295pp.]; [title, 316pp., 13pp., 22pp.]
Spines lightly rubbed and scuffed. All tooled labels present with some uneven sunning and scuffing. All boards attached with minor wear to joints and hinges, some starting or cracked. Boards with very minor rubbing, scuffing, and dark discolouration spots. Shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges with very minor marks. Text blocks very clean with light toning and very sporadic very minor foxing. Foldout map facing pp.138 with light creasing, toning, and very minor tears to the edge which is lightly sticking out from the text block in volume one. Small tear to leaf numbered 139/140, measuring approx. 45mm in volume one. Very minor marks to the top inner margin between the front pastedown and ffep in volume three. Minor pen marks to pp.340 and facing endpaper in volume three.
[OCLC: 1022190549 & 3754578].
