THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF HOMER'S ILIAD, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, A Metrical Index, and Homeric Glossary

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. From the editor's preface to the 1847 edition: "The present volume contains six books of the Iliad/The previous edition comprised merely the portion that is usually read at our classical schools in this quarter, as preparatory to a collegiate course; and along with this was given the regular text, with the Digamma restored, according to the views of Richard Payne Knight. At the request, however, of many instructors, the editor has been induced to add to the present edition the fourth, fifth, and sixth books of the poem, with a commentary on precisely the same plan as the previous one; and, in order to make room for this, he has omitted the digammated text." Full leather w/gilt spine lettering on ruby background, gilt rule to spine, marbled page edges, 897 pages (including notes, metrical index, Homeric glossary, and index to the glossary) + six pages promoting other Harper titles. Scuffed/worn covers, bumped/scraped/worn corners/spine ends, moderately warped covers, previous owner's signature to front free end paper, 15 of first 17 pages of Book I heavily marked with handwritten English translations, some handwriting on rear end papers. Internally still fairly tight..