The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer translated into English Blank Verse

by Homer, William Cowper

$6,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. First thus. Publisher's blue paper boards with printed paper spine labels. Two volumes, quarto. xvii, 11 , 668; 1 , 583 pp. A large copy, untrimmed and partially unopened. From the library of Estelle Doheny, with her bookplate to upper pastedown of each volume. Some chipping and dustsoiling to boards, mostly to volume one. A very clean set overall with just

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