Hardcover
1905 · Boston and New York
by BRYANT, William Cullen, translated by
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large paper edition limited to 600 copies (numbered in ink "459"). A total of eight volumes. Quartos. Each volume has two frontispiece plates: (in two states, the first of which is hand-colored); and additional illustrated plates throughout the text designed by John Flaxman. All eight volumes are uniformly bound in three-quarter crushed morocco and lightly marbled paper over boards, with the same lightly marbled endpapers; gilt spines with raised bands; topedges gilt. Most of the spines and edges are toned to a warm brown, near fine. William Cullen Bryant's classic translations of the *Iliad* and *Odyssey* into blank verse, in two handsomely bound sets with many finely accomplished plates.
(Inventory #: 425694)