HOMER, The Iliad
HOMER, The Iliad. London: The Cresset Press. 1928. First edition thus. The first twelve staves translated into English by Maurice Hewlett. Quarter-vellum over red boards, edges untrimmed and usually uncut. One of a limited edition of 750 total copies, this copy unnumbered. With an interesting foreword by Lascelles Abercrombie regarding the physical and mental task of translating Homer. Hewlett was a close friend to Evelyn Underhill, J. M. Barrie, and Ezra Pound. This was his final work, published after his death in 1923. A fine copy, leaves uncut with a little offsetting to endpapers, in a very good complete dust jacket which runs just a trifle short of the book, edges usually with some rubbing, small nicks and/or closed tears, but nonetheless rather scarce in the jacket.
HOMER, The Iliad. London: The Cresset Press. 1928. First edition thus. The first twelve staves translated into English by Maurice Hewlett. Quarter-vellum over red boards, edges untrimmed and usually uncut. One of a limited edition of 750 total copies, this copy unnumbered. With an interesting foreword by Lascelles Abercrombie regarding the physical and mental task of translating Homer. Hewlett was a close friend to Evelyn Underhill, J. M. Barrie, and Ezra Pound. This was his final work, published after his death in 1923. A fine copy, leaves uncut with a little offsetting to endpapers, in a very good complete dust jacket which runs just a trifle short of the book, edges usually with some rubbing, small nicks and/or closed tears, but nonetheless rather scarce in the jacket.
HOMER, The Iliad. London: The Cresset Press. 1928. First edition thus. The first twelve staves translated into English by Maurice Hewlett. Quarter-vellum over red boards, edges untrimmed and usually uncut. One of a limited edition of 750 total copies, this copy unnumbered. With an interesting foreword by Lascelles Abercrombie regarding the physical and mental task of translating Homer. Hewlett was a close friend to Evelyn Underhill, J. M. Barrie, and Ezra Pound. This was his final work, published after his death in 1923. A fine copy, leaves uncut with a little offsetting to endpapers, in a very good complete dust jacket which runs just a trifle short of the book, edges usually with some rubbing, small nicks and/or closed tears, but nonetheless rather scarce in the jacket.