The Odyssey of Homer. Volume IV, published by Bernard Lintot, London, 1726 (MDCCXXVI) 

Original, leather binding, ribbed spine with gilt devices, 318 pages, 23 cms x 29.4 cms x 3.5 cms,`reinforced hinge (front), condition: very good.

                                                     This is the Alexander Pope translation and the Lintot (1726) is the first edition (of this translation).

                                     Pope would later write ''that ..thanks to Homer I live and thrive, indebted to no Prince or Peer alive.''Pope (Epistle 2, ii'689, Poems, 4.169) (1737) 

 .                                 [Pope was a translator and satirist of the Enlightenment who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century]                                                  

                                                                                  Bookplate consists of an Earl's coronet & monogram. denoting prior owner.