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The Odyssey of Homer
by Homer
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
[FLINT, W[illiam] Russell]. The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English Prose by S.H. Butcher & Andrew Lang. With Twenty Plates in Colour After the Water-Colour Drawings of W. Russell Flint, A.R.A. London: The Medici Society, 1924. 4to, xxviii 319pp. White cloth with brown leather labels stamped in gilt affixed to spine. 20 hand-tipped color plates with captioned tissue guards. Corners and spine ends a tad rubbed, some wear to spine labels, free endpapers discolored, else an internally clean, tight copy with all color plates fine and bright.
First Flint-illustrated edition being a limited edition of 530 numbered copies. A wonderfully captured adaptation of Homer's epic translated by Andrew Lang and featuring W. Russell Flint's lavish illustrations. The illustrations for this book were first created in 1914, but due to the outbreak of WWI, the book's publication was delayed until 1924 when it was produced in this lavish, limited edition. Flint's gorgeous, classically inspired illustrations are a truly marvel.
Synopsis
The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon. Indeed it is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the eighth century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek-speaking coastal region of what is now Turkey. - [Wikipedia][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049848
- Title
- The Odyssey of Homer
- Author
- Homer
- Illustrator
- W. Russell Flint
- Format/Binding
- White cloth with brown leather labels stamped in gilt affixed to spine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Flint-illustrated edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Medici Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Pages
- xxviii 319pp.
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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