The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. . A new edition, with illustrative notes, selected from the edition published by Gilbert Wakefield, ....
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3055555
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., plate . ill.. . 8vo.. Lacks folding plate in v.3.. Provenance: Binding stamp combining the Hervey and Upton arms [Frederick William Hervey (1769-1859), 1st Marquess of Bristol m.1798 Hon. Elizabeth Albana Upton (1775-1844)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full grained leather binding; blind tooled border; gilt armorial centrepiece; Twentieth-century rebacked spine gilt decorated and lettered: "Pope's Homer. Illiad. 1817".
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Gilbert Wakefield (Nottingham 1756 - Hackney 1801)