Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.) Homer. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, in His Iliads, and Odysses. 5 volumes. Wood-engraved frontispieces, plates and illustrations by John Farleigh. 4to, 1/2 crushed red morocco over tan buckram boards, gilt-lettered spines (uniformly faded), occasional surface nicks, fore and lower edges uncut; scattered internal soiling. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate in Volume 1. number 210 from a limited edition of 450 sets. Franklin 236. Oxford, 1930-31