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Title: The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, by Geo. Chapman Author: Homer Place: London Publisher: Printed for Nathaniell Butter Date: [1611-1615?] Description: 2 volumes in 1 (with Odyssey preceding Iliad). [8], 376. [2]; [24] (incl. blank at front), 341, [9] pp. A3-6, B-Q6, R8 (with R8 a blank), S-Z6, Aa-Hh6, Ii8 (with Ii8 a blank); *2-6, A-Z6, Aa-Ff6, Gg8 (with Gg8, a blank, wanting). Copper-engraved pictorial title, with portrait on verso, followed by an engraved dedication-leaf. (folio)11¼x7, early calf, rebacked with original spine strip laid on, marbled endpapers. First editions in English of Homer's Works. Complete edition of Chapman's Homer - the mosts celebated translation of the Elizabethan age, immortalized by Keats - the first publication in English, this being the combined reissue of the Iliads, 1611 (STC 13634) and the Odysses, [1615?] (STC 13637). This combination of the earlier printings was likely issued in 1616. The title page of the first is usually cancelled by the general title page and a dedication leaf, both engraved; the title page of the second is usually cancelled. This is true of this copy. The Odyssey precedes the Iliad, which give it a collation at odds with most copies, but it is complete with all the printed pages except the above mentioned cancels. There are the sixteen sonnets by Chapman on leaves Gg4-7 following pt.1, p. [342], as called for, and though Gg8 is not present, it was a blank. Two of the leaves (A5 in the dedication of the Odyssey and A6 the errata of the Iliad) have the lower margins extended, and are likely supplied from another copy. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing and wear to covers; minor soiling and aging within, very good. Item number: 179860