The Iliad of Homer engraved

by Thomas Piroli from the Compositions of John Flaxman Sculptor by Thomas Homer. Piroli

$4,250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Rome: 1793. Oblong folio, original plain blue wrappers, upper wrapper almost detached, title-page, 34 plates all dated June 1st 1793 except for plate 24 which is dated June 1 1794, text in Italian at the end. Printed on blue paper with the watermark GLC within an urn-like device as the Blackmer copy, the only other copy we could locate with that watermark . A very good copy in original condition, of great rarity thus. § The true first Piroli printing of these

• Binding: Wrappers

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