Accession number
PML 195751-53
Creator
Homer.
Published
Paris : Barbou, Imprimeur-Libraire ... Moutard, Libraire de la Reine ... Ruault, Libraire, 1776.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes
Translated by Charle-François Lebrun, with introductory discourse in French and Greek.
Frontispiece plates engraved by Antoine Louis Romanet, Robert Delaunay, and Charles Etienne Gaucher after designs by Ch. N. Cochin: Vol. 1, "Briséïs enlevée de la tente d'Achille"; v. 2, "Hector porte la flaumme à la flotte des Grecs"; v. 3, "Priam rapporte à Troie le corps d'Hector".
Large paper issue.
Frontispiece plates engraved by Antoine Louis Romanet, Robert Delaunay, and Charles Etienne Gaucher after designs by Ch. N. Cochin: Vol. 1, "Briséïs enlevée de la tente d'Achille"; v. 2, "Hector porte la flaumme à la flotte des Grecs"; v. 3, "Priam rapporte à Troie le corps d'Hector".
Large paper issue.
Description
3 v. (lv, 260, 301, 286, [2] p.) : ill. ; 27 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Edouard Petit; purchased from Michel Bouvier, 2011.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt.
Classification
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Department