Shelfmark
Em.4.10
Author
Homer
Uniform title
[Works.]
Title
Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia.
Varying form of title
Distinctive title: ΟΜΗΡΟϒ ΙΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΔϒΣΣΕΙΑ
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Oxonia] : Ex Ergastēriou Typographikou Akadēmias tēs en Oxonia., Etei 1800[-01].
Physical description
4 v. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Note
Edited by the Right Hon. T. Grenville, R. Porson, W. Cleaver and others.
Note
With a collation of the Harleian MS. of the Odyssey, by R. Porson (88 pages at end of v.4).
Note
The title and imprint, including the date, have been transliterated from the Greek.
Note
The preface is dated 1801.
Note
Pagination: v. 1: viii, 396 p.; v. 2: [4], 421, [1] p.; v. 3: [6], 328 p.; v. 4: [6], 314, [2], 88 p.
Note
Vol. 1-4 with half-title pages.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T90249
Provenance
Late 19th or early 20th century bookplate of Edward Littleton Vaughan on upper pastedown; Eton School Library stamp on half-title of the Vaughan bequest, dated 1954; Eton School Library bookplate on upper flyleaf recto.
Binding
20th century brown cloth, library case binding. Endpapers of glossy black paper (pastedown and flyleaf). Textblock coarsely trimmed.
Copy-specific note
Vol. 3 only.
Subject
Epic poetry, Greek.
Added entry--name
Grenville, Thomas, 1755 - 1846 editor.
Added entry--name
Porson, Richard, 1759 - 1808 editor.
Added entry--name
Cleaver, William, 1742 - 1815 editor.
Added entry--name
Vaughan, E. L. (Edward Littleton) former owner, donor.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press printer, publisher.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
gre
Identifier
B50926