Description: This is the good stuff here. I do not think there has been a finer edition of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad ever produced. ***this sale is for the Iliad ONLY. Picture of both volumes is just so you can see how they'll look side by side if you buy them both*** Title: The Iliad Author: Homer, In Contemporary Verse by Robert Fitzgerald; Illustrated by W. T. Mars Publisher: Oxford University Press/The Franklin Mint, 1983/1979 (Oxford Library of the World’s Great Books series, limited edition). Impossibly rare and out of print. Condition: Hardcover. Barely-perceptible fading of the spine. Very minor scratches to edge of text block. Otherwise flawless. Looks like it was never read. About this edition: One of the most beautiful books in our collection, this book is a triumph of book design and bookbinding, meant to last for generations. It features: Full top-grade leather binding Genuine 22k gold gilt to all edges, front design, spine, and back Embossed roundel centerpiece image Silk moire endsheets Satin bookmark, sewn-in Hubbed spine with raised bands Smyth-sewn binding for durability Premium acid-neutral archival paper that will not yellow A writeup by a book collector at Librarything.com: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND FRANKLIN MINT: One Brief, Shining Moment The Franklin Library, the publishing division of The Franklin Mint, was of course, at one time, the nation’s largest publisher of great books in fine bindings. Founded in 1973, it ceased publishing in 2000. Its early editions ~ fully bound in genuine premium-grade, hand-cut leather, selected for quality of grain and texture ~ were designed and bound by The Sloves Organization, Ltd., an affiliate of the mint, whose bindery was one of the few in the world devoted exclusively to the crafting of fine leather books. Printed from 1981 to 1985,* the Oxford/Franklin volumes are gorgeous ~ absolutely stunning in their production qualities. Oxford University Press, in fact, specially chose the publishing division of The Franklin Mint to design and produce its World’s Great Books series because of Franklin’s unsurpassed skill in achieving a premium-quality product: each Oxford book must also be ‘a wonder’ in the finest of bookbinding traditions and, if possible, exceed Franklin’s high standard. By that prestigious election, Franklin thus was also doubly honored and formally recognized for the awesome reputation it had achieved in the publishing world throughout the decade of the 1970s. It is because of that ‘brief, shining moment’ in publication history that these fine classic Oxford/Franklin editions generally surpass anything else ever produced either before or after that time by any of today’s renowned publishing giants. Relatively few titles in the multi-edition Great Books series were given the fabulous full-leather treatment; most were quarter-bound volumes ~ very lovely indeed by the lights of their own publication merits ~ but still unable to boast the same ‘Rolls Royce’ elegance of their full-leather counterparts.
Price: 295 USD
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
End Time: 2025-02-03T16:25:33.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.13 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Language: English
Publisher: Franklin Library
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
