Beschreibung:

HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke by Geo: Chapman. London: [T. Harper for] N. Butter [1634?]; [ bound with : The Crowne of all Homers worckes Batrachomyomachia. His hymn's and epigrams. London: J. Bill 1624?]. 3 parts in one, folio, 275 x 174 mm. (10 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.), seventeenth-century mottled calf gilt, covers with saw-tooth roll border and acorn corner ornaments, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, uppermost compartment gilt stamped "E.G.C. 1656", "Homer's Iliads" stamped below, four repetitions of a small gilt tool in the four lower compartments, lower cover with small dampstain to upper inner margin at front of volume, fore-edge of engraved title and memorial engraving cropped. Collected edition comprising Harper's reprint of the Iliad (distinguished by "Homer's" in recto headlines), the Odyssey with the cancelland A5r (beginning "Poet.") and The Crowne ; engraved pictorial general title with engraved medallion portrait of Chapman on verso (portrait not always present), engraved memorial to Henry Prince of Wales, Errata leaf to the Iliad , bound up without the engraved title to each of the three parts as is usual with a collected edition. STC 13624.5 and 13628; Pforzheimer 165 ( The Crowne ). Provenance : John Campbell third Earl of Breadalbane (nicknamed "Old Rag", 1696-1782?) engraved bookplate.