The Iliad of Homer by Homer; Pope, Alexander (translator)

Cassell and Company Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 1909. No edition remarks. 450 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and faint foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild cracking to gutter by rear endpaper. Faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and half title page. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water droplets to front board.

Easton Press. Used - Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing box or discs. Damaged item.

Grant Richards, London, 1903. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 508 pages. Pope's translation of 'The Iliad'. Reprint of the first publication in one volume of this translation. Pocket sized. The cover is worn, scuffed and marked. It is comfortable. Inside the frontis and end pages are worn about the gutterings. The pages are mildly foxed, occasionally creased, relaxed, clear and sure. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Frederick Warne and Co, 1874. Book is in very poor overall condition. The covers are seperated from the book and is taped to the backstrip, which is damaged. The book is edgeworn and marked. The first six pages of text are seperated from the rest of the book. There is foxing but the text is readable.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:

Longmans, 1796. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1796. New Edition. 402 pages. Fully bound in brown leather. Volume II. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Tearing to hinges. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Notable splits to spine. Some peeling leather to spine and edges. Marks overall.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1979. Book. Illus. by John Flaxman. As New. Full-Leather. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First/limited edition, bound in full black leather, lettered and elaborately decorated in gold foil, 4 raised spine bands, edged in gilt, with moire endpapers, silk book mark bound in. New/as issued. xxiv,[vi],478 pp., illus. .

Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1839 Complete in two volumes. The great translation of Alexander Pope. Condition notes: Vol I: (xxviii), 284 numbered pp; Vol II: 274 numbered pp; HBs. Pages: generally clean, ivory/substantially foxed, tight; loss of portions of two preliminary pages in volume 1, all edges well sunned some pencil marks in volume 2, dampstain to bottom corner of firs one-third of volume 1. Cover: full leather, gilt ornamentation front/spine, guilt titles to black spineblock; modest shelfwear, extrems moderately worn a few small scuffs to leather, several stains.

London: G. Routledge, 1845. Leather. Good. 5.5" by 3.5". Not Stated. A pocket-sized edition of Pope's important translation of this monumental Greek epic poem. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and vignette title page.Alexander Pope's important translation of Homer's 'Iliad'.'The Iliad' is an Ancient Greek epic poem, set during the Trojan War, and narrating the ten-year siege, battles, and significant events, written in brilliantly vivid detail.'Iliad' is divided into twenty-four books, and is written in dactylic hexameter, believed to have been written in around the 8th century BC.The poem is typically attributed to Homer, and there are many legends surrounding his life. Historians have debated for centuries who Homer was, and whether he really wrote both 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey', two of the most famous epic poems from Ancient Greece.Bookplate of W. A. Peel to the front paste down. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart, with a little light rubbing. Minor bumping to the extremities. Spine… Read More

H. G. Bohn, 1863. Hardcover. Good. 1863. No Edition Stated. 459 pages. Full leather prize binding;gilt lettering and edge tooling. Block edges gilt. Gilt crest of King's College London to front board. p.63 detached but present, with tears (affecting text) and mild loss. Includes illustrated plates by Flaxman (all present as expected) and frontispiece. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Presentation plate to front paste down. Pastedowns and endpapers heavily rubbed and marked. Moderate wear, scratching and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine, with rubbing, scuffing and soiling to boards. Gilt slightly dulled, more heavily so to edges.

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot. Fair. 1736. Hardcover. ; The fourth edition. Complete 6 volume set. Tan calf leather boards are worn at extremities and leather spines crackled and peeling. Front board of volume 1 holding by a thread and front board of volume 6 detached but present. All other boards are attached and holding well but hinges starting. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings of text tight. Early owner's name in antiquated ink front end sheet dated 1741 and another early owner's name on title page. Pages are lightly toned with modest foxing but in very good condition. Engraved headpieces and tailpieces. Engraved plates as follows: vol. 1, 1 folding plate plus 1 folding map and 5 more plates including frontis. Vol. 2, 1 folding plate and 4 more plates. Vol. 3, 4 plates. Vol. 4, 4 plates. Vol. 5, 1 folding plate and 5 more plates. Vol. 6, 3 plates. This being a total of 29 plates. Adverts at rear of 5 volumes of books printed for Bernard Lintot. .