Popes' Iliad.

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(London): The Nonesuch Press 1931. Thick Roy. 8vo. Orig. full crushed niger morocco. Spine with raised bands. T.e.g. other edges uncut and partly unopened. Marbled endpapers. (ii 930pp.). Title-page with vignette is printed in red/black ink. Text in parallel Greek and English. Edition limited to 1450 numbered copies. Fine. NOTE: When Homer's Iliad appeared in Alexander Pope's majestic translation between 1715 and 1720 it was acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal."