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65 - Homer. [The Iliad], text in Greek, collation: A-Z8, 2A-2M8, title within woodcut border and woodcut printer's device to colophon (some areas of hand-colouring), some ink marginalia and annotations, largely to title and early ff. by a contemporary hand, marginal small hole to C1 and a couple of small nicks to title and elsewhere, occasional light marginal water-staining and a few odd spots and soiling, upper hinge cracked and reinforced, else rather clean and bright, contemporary blind-stamped pig-skin over wooden boards dated 1548, upper cover with personifications of 2 of the cardinal virtues (prudence and justice) & Lucretia (personification of chastity and marital fidelity), lacking clasps, upper joint with small split at foot, bumped with a few marks, small 8vo (approx. 100 x 160 mm), [Strasbourg], Wolfgang Köpfel, 1542.
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Homer. [The Iliad], text in Greek, collation: A-Z8, 2A-2M8, title within woodcut border and woodcut printer's device to colophon (some areas of hand-colouring), some ink marginalia and annotations, largely to title and early ff. by a contemporary hand, marginal small hole to C1 and a couple of small nicks to title and elsewhere, occasional light marginal water-staining and a few odd spots and soiling, upper hinge cracked and reinforced, else rather clean and bright, contemporary blind-stamped pig-skin over wooden boards dated 1548, upper cover with personifications of 2 of the cardinal virtues (prudence and justice) & Lucretia (personification of chastity and marital fidelity), lacking clasps, upper joint with small split at foot, bumped with a few marks, small 8vo (approx. 100 x 160 mm), [Strasbourg], Wolfgang Köpfel, 1542. *** Literature: Adams H747 (Iliad only)
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