The Odyssey of Homer
Book
xxviii, 314 p., [16] leaves of plates incl. frontis
Acclaimed translation by George Herbert Palmer.
2015.7.354
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Epic poetry1920s
10-1/2 in
7-1/2 in
Homer
N.C. Wyeth
First
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1929
Riverside Press
Publisher's Binding
N.C. Wyeth
Bound in the original bright red cloth with title and Wyeth designed cover decoration of Zeus with thunderbolts in gilt which is bright and untarnished. Also issued the same year in a signed, limited edition bound in green cloth. Grey and cream decorated endpapers depicting classical Greek theme. Top edge has publisher's green stain. Cover design by Wyeth: Brandywine River Museum of Art owns the Wyeth imprint (graphite on tracing paper), dated 1929, for the book's cover design.
Odysseus