Homer's Odysses. Translated according to ye Greeke. By Geo. Chapman
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Type of record: Book
Title: Homer's Odysses. Translated according to ye Greeke. By Geo. Chapman
Other titles: Odyssey
Classmark: BC Lt q/CHA
Creator(s): Homer
Additional creator(s): Chapman, George (1559?-1634) (Other)
Related people: Chapman, George
Publisher: Imprinted... by Rich: Field, for Nathaniell Butter
Publication city: London
Language: English
Size and medium: [10],376 [i.e.374],[2] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374425
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018098869705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
The first 12 books (A-Q in 6's, R in 8), printed by Field, were issued separately in [1614?]: and are here re-issued; books 13-24 (S-Hh in 6's, Ii in 8), printed by Jaggard, are here first issued.
Pagination irregular; pp.350-51 omitted in pagination.
Wanting original printed titles, probably suppressed when the 2 parts were issued in 1 volume (Christie).
General engraved title-page (Johnson Anon.14).
Blank leaf at end of both 1st and 2nd parts.
Indexed in: STC 13637 dated [1615?].
Additional description
A contemporary hand has written the prices in Latin, apparently 8s. per part, respectively on the top of the engraved title and that of p.195 adding on the title Ex:l [italic]: [?] and, near imprint, aN./hN. [?]. Engraved title and other leaves stained and frayed, affecting price inscriptions. Christie's 1975 Aug.6 Lot 326, apparently among the property of Sir Gilbert Inglefield
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