The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, ...
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3219315
Summary
Bibliographic description
A new edition, ... 2v. ; 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 3v. Iliad as set of 'Pope's Homer'.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Gilbert Wakefield (Nottingham 1756 - Hackney 1801)