The Iliad of Homer (Four volume set) [and] The Odyssey of Homer (Four volume set) with Flaxman’s Illustrations

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905.

Price: $2,000.00

Hardcover. Large paper edition limited to 600 copies (numbered in ink “459”). A total of eight volumes. Quartos. Each volume has two frontispiece plates: (in two states, the first of which is hand-colored); and additional illustrated plates throughout the text designed by John Flaxman. All eight volumes are uniformly bound in three-quarter crushed morocco and lightly marbled paper over boards, with the same lightly marbled endpapers; gilt spines with raised bands; topedges gilt. Most of the spines and edges are toned to a warm brown, near fine. William Cullen Bryant's classic translations of the *Iliad* and *Odyssey* into blank verse, in two handsomely bound sets with many finely accomplished plates.

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Item #425694 The Iliad of Homer (Four volume set) [and] The Odyssey of Homer (Four volume set) with Flaxman’s Illustrations. William Cullen BRYANT.
The Iliad of Homer (Four volume set) [and] The Odyssey of Homer (Four volume set) with Flaxman’s Illustrations
The Iliad of Homer (Four volume set) [and] The Odyssey of Homer (Four volume set) with Flaxman’s Illustrations