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HOMEROS

Homeri Ilias Graece et Latini, annotationes in usum serenissimi Principis Guilielmi Augusti, Ducis de Cumberland, edidit Samuel CLARKE. Editio septima
London
Car. Rivington
1768
€200 - €400

2 vol. in-8vo, text in GREEK with the Latin translation below in smaller characters. With 2 folding maps (Greece and Asia Minor) as frontisp. Pencil drawing on first pastedown. Contemporary calf bindings, corners bumped, ends of spine worn. We add: idem. HOMERI Odyssea Graece et Latine. Edidit, annotationesque, ex notis nonnullis a Samuele CLARKE. Editio secunda. London, A. Millar e.a., 1758. 2 vol. in-8vo, text in GREEK with the Latin translation below in smaller characters. Contemporary calf bindings, hinges weak (together: 4 vol.)

This has long been the most popular edition of Homer and will always be admired by the critic and student ... Such was its authority that no edition of Homer whether on the continent or in England, was published without being formed on the basis of Dr. Samuel Clarke's
Ref. Dibdin p. 56