Various Authors, Homer, Dante Alighieri, Virgil

A finely bound large paper edition of Classics, including works by Homer, Virgil, and Dante Alighieri.

• Sold as a set of 20 volumes.
• Various authors.
• Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905.
• Frontispiece in 2 states: colored and black-and-white, illustrated throughout.
• Limited to 600 numbered sets, this being number 138.
• Marbled edges, top edges gilt, raised bands, bound in three-quarter olive Morocco leather, marbled boards, gilt embellishments on spine panel.

Includes the following:

4 volumes: Homer, The Odyssey.

Translated into blank verse by William Cullen Bryant and illustrated by John Flaxman.

4 volumes: Homer, The Iliad.

Translated into blank verse by William Cullen Bryant and illustrated by John Flaxman.

6 volumes: Dante, The Divine Comedy.

Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by John Flaxman.

4 volumes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: A Tragedy.

Translated by Bayern Taylor and illustrated by Alexander Liezen Mayer.

2 volumes: Virgil, The Æneid.

Translated by Christopher Pearce Cranch and illustrated by Franz Cleyn.

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