Tes tou Omerou Iliados o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece] (together with:) Tes tou Omerou Odysseias o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece]

Four parts bound in two folio volumes (315x195 mm). Ilias: pp. XI, [1 blank], 312; [4], 336. Odysseia: pp. [8], 297, [3 blanks]; [4], 336. Exquisite contemporary binding in full marbled leather, spine with five raised bands adorned with elaborate gilt tooling and dual labels with the title and volume number stamped in gold, boards framed within triple gilt fillet with corner decorations, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (hinges slightly weakened, minimal losses at the headcaps and corners, spine of the first volume slightly cracked, some scuffing, yet remarkably well preserved). Very slight uniform browning. An excellent copy with wide margins.

This is the first edition magnificently printed by the brothers Robert and Andrew Foulis, the esteemed custodians of the Typographia Academiae Glasguensis, a veritable editorial masterpiece regarded as one of the finest editions ever published of the Iliade and the Odissea in Greek, both typographically and textually.

The text was edited by the Glasgow scholars James Moor and George Muirhead (the former being the brother-in-law of Robert Foulis). The volumes were printed using the splendid Greek typeface designed and engraved by Alexander Wilson, a renowned type cutter from Glasgow. This edition earned the Foulis brothers the silver medal from the Select Society of Edinburgh.