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The Iliad [and] The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles

London, The Folio Society, 1996 and 1998 (both first thus).

Quarto, two volumes, xcii, 596 and xcvi, 493 pages with a total of 6 double-page maps plus 17 full-page colour plates (by Grahame Baker) and endpaper maps.

Quarter leather and pictorial cloth; two tiny marks to the spine of 'The Odyssey', with the bottom corner of its front cover slightly bumped, and a tiny inoffensive paper flaw to the contents leaf; a near-fine set in the near-fine slipcases.

New to this edition are the illustrations by Graham Baker, the maps by Anita Karl and James Kemp (with several by Reginald Piggot after Karl and Kemp), introduction and notes by Bernard Knox, and minor revisions by the translator. [2 items].