The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1720 - 1721
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3193913
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v. : ill., map, ports. ; 12mo. Running number: 525. Imperfect: wanting vols. 2 and 4, initial licence leaf in each vol. and most plates. Binding: eighteenth-century tree calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; recessed cords; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title on red goatskin label and vol. number on green goatskin label. Pale yellow edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Thomas Parnell (1679-1718) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) William Broome (1689-1745)