The Iliad Of Homer [ complete in 6 volumes ]

printed for Bernard Lintot, near Temple Bar, 1736. 4th edition.. Hardback. Contemporary calf, G+. Six volumes, [iv]+30+70+2+250+[2]pp, 22+242pp, 225+[3]pp, [vi]+267+[3]pp, [vi]+249+[9]pp, [vi]+190+[50]+[6]pp, plates as follows - volume I with portrait frontis of Homer & Pope ( Pope's remounted ), 6 plates, 1 folding plate & a folding map - volume II with frontis, folding panorama & 4 plates - volume III with 4 plates - volume 4 with 4 plates - volume 5 with a folding plate of Achilles' shield & 5 plates - volume 6 with 3 plates. Head & tail pieces throughout, indeces in volume 6. Several volumes contain adverts at the rear for other works published by Lintot. Text to pp175 in volume III corrected in a neat contemporary hand. Upper board to volumes I, V & VI detached, and with the upper board to the other volumes cracked, volume I with a worm trace to the lower part of the gutter affecting the text in several areas, mostly to the catchwords & footnotes, leather worn to the edges & with small chips to the spines, an un restored set. The fourth edition of Pope's translation of Homer Greek epic which first appeared between 1715 - 1720. Published by subscription it was a hugh seccess for both Pope & Lintot. Samuel Johnson declared that it was 'a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal', Richard Bentley was more critical, stating 'It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer'.