The Odyssey of Homer translated by George Herbert Palmer ; with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222280
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxviii,314p., plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "Circe with love from John Buchan Xmas 1930" [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915, by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), politician and writer]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's gilt embossed full red cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Sprinkled top-edge. Illustrated endpapers.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Newell Convers Wyeth (Needham, Massachusetts 1882 - Chadds Ford 1945) George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933)