The Odyssey of Homer / rendered into English prose by S.H. Butcher & Andrew Lang ; illustrated after drawings by W. Russell Flint
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 3235539
Summary
Bibliographic description
[Popular edition]. xxiv, 331, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 20 cm. Numbered in pencil: 115. Small colour plate pasted to flyleaf: flower growing in bombed ruins, "Can spring be far behind?" Provenance: inscribed "To John from Mima Christmas 1942" [i.e. John Geoffrey Grylls Mander (1932-1978) from Marjorie Mima Nevile, née Mander (1883-1968)]. Binding: publisher's green cloth, red lettered spine; with dust jacket.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Samuel Henry Butcher (1850-1910) Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969)