Iliad of Homer. Translated into Blank Verse
Item #78607
BRYANT, William Cullen, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Translated into Blank Verse by William Cullen Bryant with Flaxman's Illustrations. Original 3/4 gilt-ruled crushed brown morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, compartments elaborate gilt, marbled endpapers, green silk book ribbon, T.e.g. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. [with] The Odyssey of Homer. . Translated into Blank Verse by William Cullen Bryant with Flaxman's Illustrations. Original 3/ gilt-ruled crushed brown morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, compartments elaborate gilt, marbled endpapers, green silk book ribbon, T.e.g. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. 8 Vols. uniformly bound. One of 600 numbered copies in the large paper edition, printed at the Riverside Press. Bound into Vol. One of The Iliad is a page of Bryant's corrected manuscript from Book V, appearing in this edition on pp. 146-147. Each volume has frontispieces in two states: handcolored and uncolored. The plates reproduce illustrations by the sculptor, designer, and illustrator John Flaxman (1755-1826) in 1793, which are among his most enduring masterpieces. A bit of light rubbing to foredges of boards, else a very good set.
Price: $2,000.00