The Iliad of Homer
by Homer; Alexander Pope (trans.)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell and Company Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 1909. No edition remarks. 450 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and faint foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild cracking to gutter by rear endpaper. Faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and half title page. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water droplets to front board.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1710494081MHA
- Title
- The Iliad of Homer
- Author
- Homer; Alexander Pope (trans.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Ltd
- Date Published
- 1909
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Gutter
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Half Title
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
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