[Rarebooks] fs: Bryant's Homer, bookplate of Royal Cortissoz

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9276 )  Bryant, William Cullen (Translator). THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER (TWO 
VOLUMES IN ONE).
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1871). Original cloth, Octavo, x, 
272 and vi, 256 pages. Near Fine.
      The Roslyn Edition of Bryan'ts translation of the Odyssey. This copy 
bears the handsome bookplate of late 19th/early 20th century art critic and 
lecturer Royal Cortissoz on front pastedown. Bound in brown cloth over 
bevelled boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, dark brown 
endpapers. Gilt on spine is darkened, minor extremity rubs to binding 
otherwise clean and sound.    $50.00
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