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POPE, Alexander, William BROME and Elijah FENTON (translators) – HOMER. The Iliad. -- The Odyssey. London: Charles Rivington, 1760.
11 volumes, 8° (207 x 130 mm, volume 3 of the Iliad slightly taller). 2 engraved portraits, 3 folding engraved plates. (Some browning and staining, small tears to folds of plates.) Uniformly bound in sprinkled calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt; Iliad vol. 3 slightly taller with different gilt ornament on spine, see note below (some wear, most joints starting). Provenance: Dr. Barnabas Binney (1751-1787; Senior Surgeon of the Revolutionary Army, manuscript note); by descent to Susan Wallace née Binney (stamp on title-page, note in her hand dated 1797); by descent to Horace B. Wallace (1817-1852; Philadelphia jurist, signature dated Jan. 1 1831); by descent to John William Wallace (1815-1884; Philadephia lawyer, printed label and manuscript note dated 4 October 1860); bequeathed to Horace Binney (1780-1875; Philadelphia lawyer, printed label); by descent to William Binney (1825-1909; Providence, Rhode Island lawyer and jurist, armorial bookplate).
BARNABAS BINNEY’S COPY OF POPE’S HOMER, with long sustained family provenance. Binney graduated at Rhode Island College (Brown University) in 1774, and obtained medical training in London and Philadelphia before joining Washington’s army and proving himself an exceptional surgeon. It was Dr. Binney who discovered that Deborah Samson, who entered the army in October, 1778, as a private soldier, was a woman. An apparent death wound brought her under his care, and in searching for her heartbeat he discovered her sex, honourably concealing the fact until her discharge was obtained from Washington. This is Binney’s set except for volume 3 which, slightly taller and with a different gilt ornament on the spine, is not original to it. Susan Wallace, the second owner, notes in 1797 that “the third volume of this work is missing having been stolen with other books in a robbery of the house at Spring Hill, Watertown.” Over half a century later, it was replaced by her son John William Wallace who notes, in 1860, that “the foregoing entry was made by my mother … In 1857 I casually found a 3rd volume of the identical edition.”
11 volumes, 8° (207 x 130 mm, volume 3 of the Iliad slightly taller). 2 engraved portraits, 3 folding engraved plates. (Some browning and staining, small tears to folds of plates.) Uniformly bound in sprinkled calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt; Iliad vol. 3 slightly taller with different gilt ornament on spine, see note below (some wear, most joints starting). Provenance: Dr. Barnabas Binney (1751-1787; Senior Surgeon of the Revolutionary Army, manuscript note); by descent to Susan Wallace née Binney (stamp on title-page, note in her hand dated 1797); by descent to Horace B. Wallace (1817-1852; Philadelphia jurist, signature dated Jan. 1 1831); by descent to John William Wallace (1815-1884; Philadephia lawyer, printed label and manuscript note dated 4 October 1860); bequeathed to Horace Binney (1780-1875; Philadelphia lawyer, printed label); by descent to William Binney (1825-1909; Providence, Rhode Island lawyer and jurist, armorial bookplate).
BARNABAS BINNEY’S COPY OF POPE’S HOMER, with long sustained family provenance. Binney graduated at Rhode Island College (Brown University) in 1774, and obtained medical training in London and Philadelphia before joining Washington’s army and proving himself an exceptional surgeon. It was Dr. Binney who discovered that Deborah Samson, who entered the army in October, 1778, as a private soldier, was a woman. An apparent death wound brought her under his care, and in searching for her heartbeat he discovered her sex, honourably concealing the fact until her discharge was obtained from Washington. This is Binney’s set except for volume 3 which, slightly taller and with a different gilt ornament on the spine, is not original to it. Susan Wallace, the second owner, notes in 1797 that “the third volume of this work is missing having been stolen with other books in a robbery of the house at Spring Hill, Watertown.” Over half a century later, it was replaced by her son John William Wallace who notes, in 1860, that “the foregoing entry was made by my mother … In 1857 I casually found a 3rd volume of the identical edition.”