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
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3219308.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2 ; 8vo. Provenance: gilt cover stamp: coronet, with initials: L.C.A. [i.e. presumably Louisa Catherine Anson, Lady Lichfield, née Phillips (d.1879)]. Binding: nineteenth-century maroon calf; thick and thin double gilt fillet border; gilt stamped centrepiece; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered black spine labels (most missing). Uniform with 2v. Odyssey as set of 'Pope's Homer'.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC), author Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), editor Gilbert Wakefield (Nottingham 1756 - Hackney 1801), editor