Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Odysses
Hom. Odyss.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Lang, M. C. (Michael C.), former owner.
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679, translator, writer of preface.
Cottrel, James, active 1649-1670, printer.
Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana.
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| Physical medium: | 12mo.
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| Provenance: | Copy 1: Armorial bookplate: Sr. Archibald Grant of Monymoske, Bar't; has manuscript shelf mark: P / V.17.
Copy 1: Contemporary or 18th-century inscription on front flyleaf and title page: Nr 220.
Copy 1: Former owner's signature: Sir Arch'd Grant of Monymusk.
Copy 1: Inscription [pen trial?] upside down on rear flyleaf verso: Cont / maners maketh am man.
Copy 2: Former owner's bookplate: MCL [M. C. Lang].
Copy 2: Tipped in advertisement on back endpaper: 708- Odysses, translated by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury, with a large Preface concerning the Vertues of an Heroique Poem, written by the Translator, 1675, 8vo, orig. calf, worn but sound.
Copy 1: Binding: early marbled edges.
Copy 2: Binding: contemporary mottled calf over boards; faded marbled fore and top edges.
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| Notes: | First complete edition of this translation; Hobbes's translation of the 9th-12th books appeared earlier, 1673, under title: The travels of Ulysses.
Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, B-O¹².
Woodcut initial in preface.
Pages 290-291, 294-295, 298-299 incorrectly numbered 300-301, 304-305, 308-309, respectively; 270-279 omitted in the paging.
James Cottrell listed as printer in English short title catalogue.
Homer in Print, B48
English short title catalogue, R28678
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