HOMER. The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, London: 1715-1720. Volumes I-IV and VI only (of 6), 4, half titles, titles in red and black, engraved frontispiece in vol. I, folding frontispiece in vol. III, head- and tailpieces, initials (occasional spotting), contemporary black morocco gilt by Thomas Elliott, covers with dentelle built up from fillets, roll-tools and small tools, a large central lozenge of numerous massed small tools, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in 2, the others with repeat symmetrical decoration of various small tools (spines lightly faded), g.e. Provenance: Welbeck Abbey (Maggs Bros. description); Maggs Bros. (Catalogue 966 [1975], item 96, with enclosed letter from Howard Nixon, dated 1966, confirming attribution).