Homer's Odysses /

Homer's Odysses /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Homer, author.
Uniform title:	Odyssey. English (Hobbes)
Imprint:	London : Printed by J.C. for W. Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar, 1675.
Description:	[20], 301 [that is, 291], [3] pages ; 17 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Armorial bookplates (Provenance) Autographs (Provenance) Shelf marks (Provenance) Numbers (Provenance) Bookplates (Provenance) Mottled calf bindings (Binding) Marbled edges (Binding)
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copies 1 and 2 form part of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana. Copy 2 is a gift of M.C. Lang.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1203336

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Odysses Hom. Odyss.
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.
Physical medium:	12mo.
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.
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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Item Description:	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.
Physical Description:	[20], 301 [that is, 291], [3] pages ; 17 cm