[HOMER]. The Iliad. Rendered into English Blank Verse by Edward Earl of Derby. London: John Murray, 1864.
Second thousand. Complete in two volumes. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 140 mm.), pp. ix, [3], 402; [4], 432. Finely bound in contemporary full morocco; spine with five raised bands, gilt titles in second and fourth compartments, Harrow School crest stamped in gilt to upper covers, gilt inner dentelles, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Printed by William Clowes and sons. Dedication to Prince of Wales. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure with hinges perfectly intact, the covers immaculately preserved. A touch of light scattered foxing, mostly to endpapers, some very minor thumb marls, otherwise excellent and without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.
