Book
Category
Books
Date
1504 - 1505
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3077469
Summary
Bound volume containing two Aldines: Homer's Odyssey (1504) and Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica (1505).
Bibliographic description
Running number: 7018. Shelved and uniform as a set with the 1524 Aldine edition of Homer's Iliad. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five supports; gold-tooled spine, brown leather labels with gilt title 'HOMERI ODYSS. ALDI' and 'Q. CALABER. [T]RIPHIODORUS [C]OLUTHUS'; red painted and burnished bookblock edges.