IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED BOARDS
HOMER; Alexander POPE, translator.
The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. To which is added, The battle of the frogs and mice.
London, Baynes & Son (and others) [upper cover: ‘Printed for The Proprietors of the English Classics, by J. F. Dove, St. John’s Square’], 1825.
12mo, pp. 383, [1 (blank)], with an engraved title and frontispiece; wood-engraved royal arms on title; very small printing flaw in one leaf (L3, affecting two words on verso), but an excellent copy; untrimmed in the original light grey printed boards; lightly soiled and rubbed, tiny dig in upper cover, old oval shelf label at head of spine.
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The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. To which is added, The battle of the frogs and mice.
Pocket-sized edition of Pope’s translations of the Odyssey and the Batrachomyomachia, with a fine frontispiece and additional title engraved by Charles Rolls; a very well-preserved copy in the original printed boards.
Provenance: the Château de Tencin near Grenoble, with the bookplate of the French soldier and statesman Louis François, marquis de Monteynard (1713–1791); the attractive bookplate, designed by Eisen and printed in sepia, was evidently used by the marquis’s family long after his death.
