Author: HOMER.
Title: The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope.
Description: Dublin: Printed for James Williams..., 1766. 3 volumes. 12mo, 165 x 95 mms., pp. xxviii, 290; 317 [318 blank]; 284 [285 - 296 Index], 16 "Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. By Mr. Archdeacon Parnel. Corrected by Mr. Pope," contemporary plain calf, red leather labels; bindings a little worn, but a very good set, with the bookseller's ticket of "Green & Co." on the front paste-down end-paper of each volumle, and ownership inscriptions on the title-pages of "Thos. Boys 1783"; "Richmond J. Kings Mayne July 1822"; and "Mary Jane Mayne" Pope completed his translation Homer's works in 1726, and in the case of the Odyssey, he had the assitance oif William Broome and Elijah Fenton as collaborators. ESTC T133473.

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