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Homer (George Chapman, trans.)
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
The Crown of all Homers Worckes: Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise.... London: John Bill, [1624?]
Folio (11 x 7 in.; 279 x 178 mm). Engraved title-page by Willem van de Passe incorporating the figure of Homer being crowned with laurel and a fine vignette of Chapman (first state), numerous engraved head and tailpieces and foliated initials; title-page neatly extended without loss, expert repair to corner tear on Aa2, lacking the initial blank, washed, light toning. Nineteenth-century crushed red morocco by Bedford, covers ruled in gilt with fleurons at corners, spine and inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; rebacked with original spine neatly laid down.
Folio (11 x 7 in.; 279 x 178 mm). Engraved title-page by Willem van de Passe incorporating the figure of Homer being crowned with laurel and a fine vignette of Chapman (first state), numerous engraved head and tailpieces and foliated initials; title-page neatly extended without loss, expert repair to corner tear on Aa2, lacking the initial blank, washed, light toning. Nineteenth-century crushed red morocco by Bedford, covers ruled in gilt with fleurons at corners, spine and inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; rebacked with original spine neatly laid down.
Provenance
MAL (red morocco library ticket in the form of an open book)
Literature
Grolier/Wither to Prior 27; Pforzheimer 165; STC 13628
Catalogue Note
Scarce, in Batrachomyomachia Chapman reached "the end of all the endlesse works of Homer," concluding the project which had begun with the Illiad (?1611) and the Odyssey (?1615).