Homer trans Alexander Pope 1688 1744 The Iliad and The O

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Homer, trans. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
The Iliad [and] The Odyssey of Homer, Extra-illustrated.

London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintott, 1715-1726.

Eleven large quarto volumes; bust portraits of Homer bound opposite the titles of the Iliad and Odyssey; folding map of Homeric Greece; the Iliad extra-illustrated with folding view of Troy and 38 other plates from Ogilby's Homer; the Odyssey extra-illustrated with 30 plates; the plates cut down, removing any text at the foot; two volumes (IV and V of the Odyssey not uniform, taller copies in similar bindings and the same early bookplates) bound in period speckled calf ruled in gilt with spines lettered and tooled in gilt; some joints mended, extremities rubbed; ex libris Alexander Thistlethwayte, Esq., whose library was sold at auction in 1772, with engraved armorial bookplates; 10 3/4 x 8 in. (11)

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