BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 6 03HOMER. Iliad of Homer. WITH: The Odyssey of Homer. London, 1715-26. Together, eleven volumes. Small folio (7-1/2 by 12 inches), contemporary full paneled calf. $35,000 First folio editions of Pope’s famous illustrated translations—issued almost immediately after the quarto first editions. Samuel Johnson, in his Life of Pope, calls it “certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of learning” (Allibone, 1632-34). The six volumes of the Iliad were issued between 1715-20. “Contemporaneously with the quarto [for subscribers] [Lintot] issued the work in two forms, a Large Paper folio and a Small (or ‘ordinary’) folio” (Griffith 39). These volumes belong to the ordinary folio issue. The five volumes of the Odyssey were published between 1725-26, in quarto and large-paper folio. These volumes belong to the folio issue. Bookplates of esteemed collector Abel E. Berland. Manuscript slips occasionally laid- or tipped-in. Plates and text generally fresh and bright with just a few leaves mildly embrowned in the Iliad; minor rubbing to boards. A handsome set with outstanding provenance. “He Made The Father Of All Poetry Live…”
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