The Iliad. Edited with English Notes and Introduction by Walter Leaf, M.A.

HOMER.

Published by LondonMacmillan and Co. -1888., 1886

About this Item

FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo. (23 x 15 cm.) pp.xxviii+422+[2, ads]; xvii+505+[2, ads]. Publisher's original blue-green cloth, upper covers with gilt-stamped crests, spines lettered in gilt, black-coated endpapers. 2 frontispieces. Victoria University prize labels to front pastedown of both volumes dated 1895. Inner hinges lightly cracked, some infrequent light foxing, light shelfwear, generally a very good set. Walter Leaf's two-volume edition of the Iliad (published 1886 1888) served as the definitive English scholarly standard for Homeric epic for decades, bridging traditional philology with a grounded focus on the physical and geographical realities of antiquity.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Iliad. Edited with English Notes and Introduction by Walter Leaf, M.A.
• Publisher: LondonMacmillan and Co. -1888.
• Publication Date: 1886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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