The Iliad of Homer

Second Edition, Ingram, Cook 1853. 2 Volumes Complete, bound in 1. Very Thick Royal 8vo. vi 348pp. iv 324pp. With Flaxmans Designs and Other Engravings; 44 illustrations to Volume I, 45 to Volume II, including double frontispiece to each book, with portrait of Homer and Pope respectively. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, 2 small discreet feint erasable pencil inscriptions to frontis and titlepage, 1 similar pen inscription to fly leaf, all edges bright red. Later rebind in full brickred morocco leather, bevelled edge with original brown calf boards laid down and featuring black and brown embossed floral scrolled vignette illustration and ruling to both, new endpapers with laid down original coloured marbled pastedowns, all inner and edges with blind dentelles, no text to spine. A lovely volume, of double interest for classicists, as here Homers Iliad is translated by Augustan poet Alexander Pope, author of The Rape of the Lock, and second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Book of Quotations, after Shakespeare. A good addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike.…