NONESUCH PRESS. HOMER. POPE, Alexander. KOCH, Rudolf. ~ The Iliad and The Odyssey.
No. 857 of 1450 copies and 838 of 1300 copies. Ornaments designed, engraved and composed by and under supervision of Rudolf Koch, assisted by Fritz Kredel. Greek and English text printed by Johannes Enschedé en Zonen in the Greek type of J. van Krimpen and Monotype Cochin in black and red. Pp. 929; 761. 8vo., original full niger morocco with gilt borders to covers and gilt lettering on the spine, t.e.g, others uncut, marbled endpapers in the original marbled paper covered slipcases. A remarkably handsome, largely unopened and unworn set.
With the rare loosely inserted leaf “On First Looking into Pope’s Homer” which gives Francis Meynell’s picturesque instructions as to how to open the leaves of the books.
The Greek text is from the Oxford Classical Texts by Oxford University Press and the English is printed from the first 1715 edition of Pope’s Homer.
Pope’s translations of Homer have been described as a ‘great example of the energy and resource of the English language’.
Ex libris of W.E. Eales in both volumes.