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Creator:
Homer
Title(s):

The Iliad of Homer / translated by A. Pope ; adorned with plates.

Additional Title(s):

Pope's version of Homer's Iliad

Iliad. English. 1805

Edition:
A new edition.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for F. J. Du Roveray by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, and sold by J. and A. Arch, Cornhill, and E. Lloyd, Harley Street, 1805.
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA4025.A2 P67 1805
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Half-title: Pope's version of Homer's Iliad.
Engravings by James Heath, Isaac Taylor, James Stow, Edward Smith, Francis Engleheart, James Fittler, R. H. Cromek, and Luigi Schiavonetti; after Henry Fuselli, Henry Singleton, Henry Howard, Thomas Stothard, Richard Westall.
Edition statement transposed; precedes "adorned with plates" on title page.
Also issued on large paper.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in half black morocco.
Subject Terms:
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1805.
Contributors:
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Heath, James, 1757-1834, engraver.
Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, engraver.
Stow, James, approximately 1770- engraver.
Smith, Edward, active 1823-1851, engraver.
Engleheart, Francis, 1775-1849, engraver.
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, engraver.
Cromek, R. H. (Robert Hartley), 1770-1812, engraver.
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765-1810, engraver.
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, ill.
Singleton, Henry, 1766-1839, ill.
Howard, Henry, 1769-1847, ill.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834, ill.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836, ill.
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