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FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. HOMER. The Iliad. Translated by A. Pope. London, 1813. 6 volumes. 8 o. Engraved plates. -- The Odyssey. Translated by A. Pope. London, 1813. 6 volumes. 8 o. Engraved plates. Together 12 volumes, both sets bound in red straight-grained morocco elaborately ruled in blind and gilt EACH WITH A F0RGE-EDGE PAINTING; and housed in two cloth slipcases. The 12 fore-edge painting are: Chiswick Church; Chiswick; Twickenham; Pope's Villa, Twickenham; Stanton Court, Oxfordshire; Windsor; Windsor Forest; Chiswick House; Prior Park, Bath; St. James's Street; Pope's Villa at Twickenham; Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick. (12)