The Iliad by Homer - 1976

Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1976. Limited Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with two raised bands on the spine with gilt text stamping and gilt decorations in the compartments with gilt decorations on the front and rear boards. The end papers are of silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. The edges of the text block are gilt with modest rubbing to the leather at the heel of the spine and to the lower tips of the boards. An octavo measuring 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with a ful, two page color map created by Quentin Fiore. 664 pages of text in contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald. One of the volumes in the Franklin Library's collection of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. A handsome volume with no ownership marks, notations or book plates.