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HOMER. [SMITH-STANLEY (E)], 14th Earl of Derby.: The Iliad of Homer rendered into English blank Verse. To which are appended Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern. Tenth Edition. IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING WITH TRADE TICKET , John Murray, 1876

2 vols., 8vo., Tenth Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, endpapers and frontispiece lightly spotted; original red cloth, sides with arabesque border in blind enclosing stylised floral motif in gilt, backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, uncut, black endpapers, backstrips chafed at headbands and lightly sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), short split in lower hinge at headband, else an unusually well-preserved, bright, fresh copy. (Book ref. 19791)  £60.00

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Specialities:British topography, local history and genealogy; bibliography; palaeography; naval & military; siegfried sassoon; modern first editions; natural history; thomas hardy; illustrated and private press; english church architecture; h v morton; WWI literature
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