11
id.
[i.e. Homeri Odysseus
]
Eng.
5. v.
12
mo.
by Pope.
1815 Catalogue, page 135, no. 5, Homer’s Odyssey, by Pope, 5 v 12mo.
HOMER.
The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq;
London: Printed for
Henry Lintot,
1752.
5 vol. 12mo. Frontispiece, plates; a copy of this edition was not available for collation.
At the end of volume V is
Homer’s Battle of the Frogs and Mice. By Mr. Archdeacon Parnel. Corrected by Mr. Pope.
22 pages.
See no. 4264, above.
Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718, English-Irish poet, was appointed Archdeacon of Clogher in 1706. Parnell was a friend of Pope, and his Essay
on the
Life, Writings, and Learning of Homer
was printed in the first volume of Pope’s Illiad in 1715. His
Homer’s Battle of the Frogs and Mice was first published separately in 1717.
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12
Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey. by Chapman
p. Fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 135, no. 29, as above.
1839 Catalogue, page 581, no. J, 37, Homer: Iliad and Odyssey; translated from the Greek, by George Chapman, folio; London.
[No title page.]
HOMER.
The whole Workes of Homer, Prince of Poetts, in his Iliads and Odysses. Translated according to the
Greek, by Geo. Chapman.
At
London: printed for
Nathaniell Butter [by
Richard Field], n.d. [c.
1616.]
Sm. folio. 2 parts in 1. This is the first complete edition of Chapman’s Homer; the Iliad and the Odyssey had previously been printed separately. It seems probable, as it is a small folio and contains
both poems in one volume, that it was the edition in Jefferson’s library and sold by him to Congress. Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue and the early printed catalogues of the Library of Congress do not note the lack of title-page, the note of which first appears
in the catalogue of 1839 as above. The early catalogues do not specify the edition. The title page of this edition was engraved
by W. Hole and was without date. The Odyssey had been separately printed in 1614 and in some copies the engraved title to that poem
is preserved, though it is wanting in most copies, having been suppressed when the general title was given to the whole book.
STC 13624.
Hazlitt,
Handbook, page 282, no. 6.
Clawson 407.
George Chapman, 1559?-1634, English poet and dramatist, printed his first installment towards the complete translation of Homer in 1598,
and the separate works were published at different times, before this complete edition. Chapman’s Homer is considered one
of the great achievements of the Elizabethan age.
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13
Index Homericus Wolfgangi.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 135, no. 30, as above.
SEBER,
Wolfgang.
Argus Homericus, sive Index Vocabulorum in omnia Homeri poemata, cum . . . Catalogo item
græco-
latino Vocabulorum, quibus apud Homerum, et ex eo in indice adjecta sunt epitheta, omnia accurante M. Wolfgango Sebero . . .
Amterodami: apud
J. Janssonium,
1649.
4to. 280 leaves; there is not a card for this book in the National Union Catalog, and a copy was not available for collation.
The above title was taken from the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Graesse VI, 337.
Ebert 20776.
This work is entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
5.
Wolfgang Seber, 1573-1634, German classical scholar, was a native of Thuringia. The first edition of his Index to Homer was published in
1604.
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