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HOMER. The Iliad . . . Translated by Mr. [Alexander] Pope. Engraved portrait of Homer and double-page map of Greece in Volume 1; plate depicting shield of Achilles in Volume 5; lacks the folding plate of Troy in Volume 2. Half-title in first volume, initial license leaf in each of the rest except for Volume 3. 6 volumes. 4to, 273x214 mm, contemporary calf, attractively rebacked; contents heavily toned and offset, occasional light marginal dampstaining. Early signatures of E. Granville in Volume 3 and [Baron?] Lansdowne in Volumes 4 and 5; 19th-century armorial bookplate of William Roberts, Beechfield. London: W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintott, 1715-20
first pope edition. The quarto subscription edition preceded the folio editions also published by Lintot. Griffith 40, 48, 76, 94, 113, 117; Hoffmann II, 355.
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