1817 Homer's Odyssey L'Odyssee Madame Dacier French Miniature Book Illustrated

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1817 Homer's Odyssey L'Odyssee Madame Dacier French Miniature Book Illustrated Homer's Odyssey L'Odyssee Par Madame Dacier Published in Paris by Saintin, Libraire de la Cour 1817 In Original Leather & Marbled Bindings - Carries 16 Plates + Frontis (17 Total) "A charming and genuinely early miniature-format edition of Homer's Odyssey, here presented as L'Odyssée d'Homère, translated into French by the celebrated classical scholar Anne Dacier (1645–1720). Published in Paris by Saintin, Libraire de la Cour, in 1817, this is Tome Troisième (Volume III) of the three-volume edition recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. At just 10.5 x 7 x 2.5cm and weighing only 107 grams, it is a delightful pocket-sized production from the Napoleonic/Restoration era. The volume is particularly appealing for its numerous engraved illustrations, including a fine frontispiece depicting Ulysses recognised by Eurycleia and further engraved plates illustrating Homeric episodes, antiquities, landscapes and classical sites. The 1817 Saintin edition of the Iliad and Odyssey was issued as six small volumes — three for each work — and a complete surviving set is recorded with 24 engraved plates, confirming that illustration was an important feature of this attractive edition. Anne Dacier's influential French translation had introduced generations of French readers to Homer and remained sufficiently important to warrant this handsome new edition almost a century after her death. This surviving thir

• Publisher: Paris by Saintin, Libraire de la Cour
• Year: 1817
• Condition: Good

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