Accession number
PML 145993-96
Creator
Homer.
Published
Oxonia : Ergastēriou Typographikou Akadēmias, 1800-1801.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Includes index.
The "Grenville" or "Adelphi" edition of Homer, published in Oxford at the Clarendon Press at the expense of Baron Grenville, Thomas Grenville, and the marquis Buckingham; the text of the Odyssey having been collated with corrections by Richard Porson.
Vol. 1: viii, 396 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: 421, 14 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: 328 p, [3] leaves of plates; v. 4: 314, 82, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates.
Library's copy is one of 25 issued on large paper for presentation, with the added engravings accounted for in some copies.
The "Grenville" or "Adelphi" edition of Homer, published in Oxford at the Clarendon Press at the expense of Baron Grenville, Thomas Grenville, and the marquis Buckingham; the text of the Odyssey having been collated with corrections by Richard Porson.
Vol. 1: viii, 396 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: 421, 14 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: 328 p, [3] leaves of plates; v. 4: 314, 82, 8 p., [2] leaves of plates.
Library's copy is one of 25 issued on large paper for presentation, with the added engravings accounted for in some copies.
Description
4 v. ; 31 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt with the arms of Baron William Wyndham Grenville on front and back cover, with tooled red morocco doublures and dark brown endpapers, probably by C. Hering (see Heritage, Dallas, Texas, June 8-9, 2010 (sale 6043), lot 36154, for another large paper presentation copy of this book in a similar binding and bearing Hering's ticket).
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