A lovely bright set in Fine condition, with no ownership marks, the pages mostly unfoxed and clean, just some light browning and the odd spot mark, in a few places, (largely at ends as usual, and to backs of folding engravings). Volume 6: Twenty-Second to Twenty-Fourth Books, and A Comparison between the Games of Homer and Virgil, 212pp, followed by extensive unpaginated indexes. Volume 5: Seventeenth to Twenty-First Books, with Observations on the Shield of Achilles and a folding engraving of the shield, 287pp. Volume 4: Thirteenth to Sixteenth Books.301pp. Volume 3: Eighth to Twelth Books of the Iliad, 304pp. Volume 2: The Third to the Seventh Books of the Iliad, and an Essay on Homer's Battles, 341pp including a folding engraved map of Troy.

Volume 1: With 2 engraved frontispiece plates showing Homer and Pope, to page lix Preface, to page cli, Essay on Homer ((both with engraved head and tail pieces) engraved folding map of Greece and Phrygia in Homer's time, then the First and Second Books of the Iliad, with engraved headpieces (as in all the volumes, plus some have tailpieces as well) and a Geographical Table of The Towns etc in Homer's Catalogue of Greece, to page 175. RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF POPES FAMOUS TRANSLATIONS OF HOMERS ILIAD AND. Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. his suicide after losing the competition with Odysseus from the Iliad. Six volumes, complete, a Fine set, handsomely rebound with brown leather spines, lettered and decorated in gilt to spines, and marbled boards in pink and grey-blue, with similar marbled endpapers. This First Edition by HOMER, Alexander POPE, is available at Bauman Rare Books. Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. Named after Pope Paul VI and built in 1971 by Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi.

Pope's iliad