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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 9,000
Homer trans. George Chapman (1559-1634) Homer Prince of Poets: Translated according to the Greeke in Twelve Bookes of his Iliads.
London: Printed [by Humphrey Lownes] for Samuel Macham, [1609?].
First edition, small folio, engraved title; with the leaf containing verses to Queen Anne [Dd3] present in this copy, lacking the leaf with verses to Lady Wroth and the Countess of Montgomery [Dd2], and the final blank Ff2; genuine blank Cc4 present; the William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878) copy with armorial bookplate and binding; ex libris bookseller and bibliographer William Ford (1771-1832), with his neat signature on ffep; purchased from L.C. Harper in 1972; edges trimmed when bound for Stirling-Maxwell; 9 1/4 x 6 in.
STC 13633; ESTC S104163; Pforzheimer 168; Langland to Wither 34.
