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Homer trans. George Chapman (1559-1634) The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Never before in any Language Truely Translated.
London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, [circa 1611.]
Small folio, engraved title page by William Hole; lacking initial blank and blank Gg8 (with visible stub), with the addition of the bifolium containing sonnets to Sir Edward Philips, and Viscounts Cranborne and Rochester bound after Gg7; bound in full near-contemporary English calfskin, tooled in blind, neatly rebacked, ex libris Sam. Cooper, circa 1780 with dated signature on ffep; contents not washed or pressed and likely not trimmed more than once; ex libris Percival F. Hinton (1896-1977), with bookplate; Quaritch collation note signed "F.W." inside back board, 11 x 7 in.
