24 - 1932.

1932. BOOK. (FOREIGN BIBLIOPHILIA). [Trans. LAWRENCE, T. E.:]. THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER. London: Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton, and Bruce Rogers, 1932. Large 4º. Unnumbered and unpaginated edition, approximately 250 pages. Features 26 headpieces with circular engravings in gold and black, inspired by Greek vases. Jansenist binding, full leather with gold lettering on the spine, gilt top edge; some slight marks but no peeling or scuffs. Limited edition of 530 copies. This work is considered one of the masterpieces of 20th-century typography; this, combined with the fact that the translation by Thomas Edward Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) is among the most highly regarded for its literary quality and fidelity to the classical text, makes this edition a remarkable piece of bibliophilia.