Author: HOMER; ELIOT, CHARLES W. (EDITOR)
Title: The Odyssey of Homer ("the Harvard Classics" Series)
Description: New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardcover. A deluxe edition of the classic epic poem, written c.1190s-1180s B.C. Translated from the Greek by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang. With illustrations, notes and tissue-guarded sepia frontis image of the Apotheosis of Homer, and with two additional tissue-guarded reproductions of paintings on Grecian vases. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with some discoloration to front endpapers, back cover corner and mild edgewear.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 347 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Greek & Roman Classics
Title: The Odyssey of Homer ("the Harvard Classics" Series)
Description: New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardcover. A deluxe edition of the classic epic poem, written c.1190s-1180s B.C. Translated from the Greek by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang. With illustrations, notes and tissue-guarded sepia frontis image of the Apotheosis of Homer, and with two additional tissue-guarded reproductions of paintings on Grecian vases. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with some discoloration to front endpapers, back cover corner and mild edgewear.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 347 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Greek & Roman Classics
Price: US$ 19.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86527
- Book number: 86527