illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1972,U.420.1-4
- Description
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‘The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope’ (London, Barnard Lintot) 1736, fourth edition, part II of VI comprising of books V to VIII; containing 4 plates, one at the beginning of each book, with titles: ‘Aeneas being desirous to revenge Pandarus…’, ‘Hector coming to Troy…’, ‘Hector being return’d to ye camp…’ and ‘The fight-being again began to ye advantage of ye Greeks…’. Together with wood-engraved head and tailpieces, dedication to King George I by James Stanhope, and essay on ‘Homer’s battels’. Bound in brown leather with tooling on covers, gold tooling on spine and raised bands.
Etching, engraving and wood-engravings
- Production date
- 1736
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 95 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- 1972,U.419-424 are all volumes from the same collection of the Homer's Iliad. All volumes bound in covers with same pattern, each volume containing 4 books. The first two volumes don’t contain publisher’s advertisement.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Trojan War 1260 BC –1180 BC (c)
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Iliad of Homer
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.420.1-4
