HOMER.
Ilias. Adjicitur in Calcem Interpretatio Latina. Duo volumina.
London, J. & F. Rivington, T. Longman, T. Cadell, & E. Johnston, 1774.
12mo. Bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with gilt spines. Gilt title labels and five raised bands to spines. Edges of boards gilt. Insignificant wear to capitals and edges. Ownership signatures to front free endpaper. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Homer. Title pages printed in black and red. A few scattered marginal notes in pencil, otherwise clean. (8),248,176;249-511,(13),177-367,(1) pp.
A neat copy of a later revised edition of Joshua Barnes's edition and Latin translation of Homer's Iliad. The book is presumably a slightly altered pirate edition of Tonson and Watts's 1722 edition, indicated by their printer's device on the title page.
Order-nr.: 60453
DKK 1.000,00