Iliad.. Selections.. English
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1775
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3249953
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 254, [18] p. ;. 8⁰. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Front flyleaf slightly detached. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: 'George William Blathwayt Merton College Oxon April 12 1780'. [= Rev. George William Blathwayt (1759-1806)] Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled tan leather over boards; sewn on five raised bands; blind tooling to board edges; decorative gold tooling with circular pattern to spine; red leather spine label with 'Beauties of Homer' lettered in gold with double fillet border tooled in gold.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Holwell, William, 1726-1798, editor J. and J. Fletcher (Firm : Oxford, England), publisher John and James Rivington (Firm), bookseller