[HOMER]. The Odyssey. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza by Philip Stanhope Worsley. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, MDCCCLXI. [1861].
First edition thus. Complete in two volumes. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (200 x 130 mm.). Pp. xvi, 307; xvi, 291. Finely bound in stunning contemporary full black morocco; spine with four raised bands, the covers elaborately gilt ruled and tooled. Gilt inner dentelles. All page edges gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Half-titles present. Printed by William Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh. Contents: volume 1 - books I.-XII.; volume 2 - books XIII.-XXIV. Condition: NEAR FINE. A near immaculately preserved set. Bindings and covers superb. Interior with the faintest hint of a few fox spots and a neatly inked inscription to fep of vol.1. Magnificent unsigned bindings.