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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, In His Iliads, and Odysses, translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., NUMBER 3 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON ON VELLUM, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1931 image 1
SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, In His Iliads, and Odysses, translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., NUMBER 3 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON ON VELLUM, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1931 image 2
SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, In His Iliads, and Odysses, translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., NUMBER 3 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON ON VELLUM, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1931 image 3
SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, In His Iliads, and Odysses, translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., NUMBER 3 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON ON VELLUM, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1931 image 4
SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, In His Iliads, and Odysses, translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., NUMBER 3 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON ON VELLUM, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1931 image 5
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HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, In His Iliads, and Odysses, translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., NUMBER 3 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON ON VELLUM, 1930-1931

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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS

HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, In His Iliads, and Odysses, translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., NUMBER 3 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON ON VELLUM, from an overall edition of 460, wood-engraved portrait, title borders and full-page illustrations by John Farleigh, publisher's limp vellum, yapp edges, with red silk ties (one missing), original morocco-backed solander boxes with title label on spine [Franklin 236], 4to, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1931

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FINE SET OF ONE OF ONLY 10 SPECIALLY PRINTED ON VELLUM, IN THE ORIGINAL BOXES. This edition of Homer's major works which "stands out in any view of the labours of these five decades the Shakespeare Head holds a place of high honour" (Franklin).

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