HOMER. The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, London: Charles Rivington, 1760. 5 volumes, 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. one, engraved headpieces and plates, some folding (occasional browning), contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed)

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HOMER. The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, London: Charles Rivington, 1760. 5 volumes, 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. one, engraved headpieces and plates, some folding (occasional browning), contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed), rebacked in modern calf, blue and brown lettering pieces, spines gilt in compartments.

Together with 31 other volumes of mythological subject matter, all leather-bound, predominantly half calf, including Walter Savage Landor's Imaginary Conversations, Longer Prose Works and Poems Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams (London, 1841-42, 10 vols., uniformly bound), and The Satires of Decimus Junius Junvenalis, translated by William Gifford, (London, 1802). (36)

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