The Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke,

by Geo: Chapman by Homer, George Chapman

$35,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

London: R. Field and W. Jaggard for Nathaniel Butter, ca. 1616 . The first collected edition of George Chapman's translation of the works of Homer, and the first complete translation of these works into English. Chapman's work was extremely influential on English literature, and until Alexander Pope's translations in the early 18th century, was the primary and most accessible edition for English readers. Praised by the

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