Apr 25, 2002 - Sale 1933

Sale 1933 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
HOMER. The Iliad . . . Translated by Mr. [Alexander] Pope. Frontispiece portrait of Homer, 2 plates with 5 subjects, and double-page map 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; errata leaf in Volume 2. 6 volumes in 3. Folio, 359x226 mm, contemporary calf gilt, bound uniformly with the following lot, top of spines chipped, Volume 1/2 front cover detached; browning on opening leaves of Volumes 3 and 5. wide-margined set.<> London: Bernard Lintot, 1715-20

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First folio edition of the the first 2 volumes, second folio edition of the rest. Pope's translation was originally by subscription in quarto format. Griffith 42, 49, 78, 96, 115, 119; Hoffmann II, 355.<