First Folio

THE ILIAD.

Homer.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931.

Limited to 925 copies for England and 525 for the U.S. (this no. 1281). Quarto. 925p. Bound in full niger morocco with marbled endpapers and cloth reinforced inner joints, gilt spine titles and double rules around the covers, t.e.g., bottom and fore-edge untrimmed. Printed by Johannes Enschede en Zonen in Monotype Cochin and Jan van Krimpen's Antigone Greek on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Text in Greek and English. Spine with just a little of the usual darkening, a rather nice copy in the original slipcase. Item #21517

Dreyfus 72.

Price: $1,000.00