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Homer
The Odyssey
First Illustrated Pope Translation
In 5 Volumes
Bernard Lintot, publisher
London, 1725-1726

A beautiful set from 1725-1726 on quality paper. Illustrated. Includes two bonus volumes of the first two books of the first illustrated Iliad Pope translation (first volume published in 1715).

“On stormy seas unnumber’d toils he bore,
Safe with his friends to gain his natal shore:
Vain toils! their impious folly dared to prey
On herds devoted to the god of day;
The god vindictive doom’d them never more
(Ah, men unbless’d!) to touch that natal shore.”

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