[Lawrence, T.E.] - Bruce Rogers - Homer
The Odyssey
£5,250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
[translated by T.E. Lawrence]. [London: Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932]. 4to, one of 530 copies on grey Barcham Green, designed by Bruce Rogers and printed in Monotype Centaur, title-vignette and 23 head-pieces after Greek vase paintings printed as roundels in black on gold, bound in black morocco, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, black slipcase, slipcase slightly rubbed
Footnote
Note: A fine copy of this glorious edition of T.E. Lawrence's translation of the Odyssey. In Joseph Blumenthal's Bruce Rogers. A Life in Letters Blumenthal describes this volume: "I believe the Bruce Rogers Odyssey is indisputably amongst the most beautiful books ever produced. It is difficult to describe a work of genius. In the Odyssey without tricks or accessory decoration, with a classic austerity akin to the timeless proportions of the Parthenon, with only type and paper and ink, with consummate skill, Rogers created a masterpiece".