The Iliad of Homer. . Translated by Mr. Pope.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1715 - 1720
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3039054
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v. . ill.., map., port.. . fol.. Previous shelfmarks: E.11.1-3. Bound in 3v. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 308, price 13s. Christies, 21 June, 2004, lot 637.. Provenance: Bookplate in each vol.: Robert Myddelton Esqr of Chirk Castle Denbigh shr [i.e. Robert Myddelton (1678-1733)]; Jacobean armorial. Franks 21461.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf bindings; double gilt fillet and blind roll pattern border on boards; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title labels (vol. 1 missing). Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) William Broome (1689-1745) Thomas Parnell (1679-1718) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)