Homer his Iliads translated, . adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations, by John Ogilby.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1660
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 3025447
Summary
Bibliographic description
[42], 518 p., [53] leaves of plates . fol.. Provenance: Inscribed on title-page "Chauncy Townsend". Bottom corner of text-block eaten away with significant loss of text from first hundred pages. Binding: Seventeenth-century gold-tooled full calf, much worn away; border and corner ornaments, floral ornaments in spine panels, spine lettered in gilt "OGILVY HOMER." Boards off.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) John Ogilby (1600-1676)