The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield. B.A.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1796
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3212620
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v., plate : port. ; 8vo. Accompanies and uniform with Pope's Works (1797) and his translation of the Odyssey (1796), thus old Felbrigg shelfmarks: [in pencil at front] M4 ; [in ink at rear] N5. Binder’s ticket: Bound by Staggemeier & Welcher, no.11, Villiers St, York Buildings, London. Provenance: inscribed but almost erased "Anne Thellusson" [i.e. Anne (Lukin) Windham née Thellusson (1775-1849)]; armorial bookplate, lettered "William Lukin" [i.e. Vice-Admiral William Lukin, later William Lukin Windham (1768 –1833)]. Binding: late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century green morocco; gilt fillet border; gilt on spine & turn-ins, all edges gilt. Numbered as: Pope Vol. X-XV. Homer Vol. I-VI.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) William Broome Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Gilbert Wakefield (Nottingham 1756 - Hackney 1801)