The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1715 - 1720
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3039056
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v. : ill., map (fold.), port. ; fol. Old Lyme Park shelfmark label: Case N Shelf 4. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119). Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; single gilt fillet to form a border; rebacked, spine entirely replaced; green spine labels: Homer's Iliad; nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest on spine.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) William Broome (1689-1745) Thomas Parnell (1679-1718) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)