Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
HOMER. The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr. [Alexander] Pope. The Second Edition. Engraved portrait of Pope and 29 plates; folding engraved map. [36], 70, 250, [2]; 19, [1], 242; 225, [3]; 267, [3]; 249, [9]; [6], 190, [56] pages, including initial license leaf in each volume, half-title in Volume 1 with portrait of Homer on verso, and final ad leaves in Volumes 3-6. 6 volumes. 12mo, 157x97 mm, contemporary calf, spines worn, stains on a few covers, front cover of Volumes 1 and 6 detached; contents toned with marginal browning or foxing and scattered minor stains not affecting engraved matter. Contemporary signature of H. Jarvis on titles; bookplate of John Masefield ("From the library of John Masefield O.M., Poet Laureate") in Volume 1. Griffith 119 note. London: William Bowyer [et al.] for Bernard Lintot, 1720-21