HOMER - George Chapman (trans.).

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The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, in his Iliads, and Odysses. First Shakespeare Head Press edition, number 73 of 450 copies on handmade paper. The illustrator, John Farleigh (1900–1965), was commissioned by many of the influential private presses and commercial book publishers of the period. His engravings in this work demonstrate the "technical virtuosity and intellectual content which place him alongside other important artists of the period who developed the medium as an art form" (ODNB). One of the greatest literary achievements of the Elizabethan age, Chapman's Homer was published in two parts and then together as The whole works of Homer around 1616.

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