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First edition the iliad
First edition the iliad









The front flypaper has the prior owner's bookplate. Binding is worn and smudged, but still legible.The pages are crisp and in tact. Hoffman and printed under his supervision at the Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.".Beautiful blue boarsds with tonal design around the frame of the boards. have been reproduced by photogravure in the shop of Charles Furth in New York the reproduction has been done for a set of prints pulled from the plates engraved for John Flaxman by Parker & Blake(the Blake being William Blake!). As noted on the last couple of pages of this Edition, "The illustrations for this edition. Winterich before the beginning of the story, as there is a "Note Upon The Translation" by Carl Van Doren.

first edition the iliad

There is a " How This Book Came To Be" by John T. There are 32 plates throughout the edition. 1942, First Edition and First Printing.In the English Verse Translation by Alexander Pope, and Illustrated with the Classical Designs of John Flaxman.











First edition the iliad