Description
This is a handsome, custom fine binding set of "The Iliad of Homer" (complete in two volumes) together with "The Odyssey of Homer" (complete in one volume). 1853; Ingram, Cooke, and Co.; London. Alexander Pope translation. Each volume contains an illustrated title page, a frontispiece (with tissue guard), illustrations by John Flaxman, and "other engravings"; Volume I of The Iliad also contains a full-page map titled "Plain of Troy." This set has been beautifully bound by London bookbinder "Root & Son" in three-quarter leather with marbled covers and end papers, gilt top page edges, ribbon page markers, and a decorative gilt spine with five raised bands. With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley.
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Well packaged and an excellent set of books.