LA18 TROYE HOMER ESSAY ON THE ORIGINAL GENIUS AND WRITING OF HOMER

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• Auteur : Robert Wood .
• Illustrations : engraved frontispiece portrait of Homer, title page engraving by Bartolozzi, folding engraved map, 3 engraved plates of which 1 folding after Pars and Borra, tailpiece engraving by Bartolozzi on last page
• Etat / condition : bon, reliure solide, coins émoussées, plats avec epidermures et salusures (photo), quelques legeres rousseurs au debut  mais tres propre en general, binding rubbed ( see photo) but solid, corners damaged, inside some spots in the beginning but very good and clean copy .
• Format : petit in folio, 30 x 24 cm, in-4, plein cuir, full leather . 
• Pages :  xv / 342.
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• Editeur : printed by H. Hughs for T. Payne and P. Elmsley
• Date : 1775, 1ere edition, Anglais,  1th edition. English
  
  Robert Wood spent nearly four years in The Levant, resulting in his celebrated works on Balbec and Palmyra. The "Essay is one of the most interesting of the eighteenth century works on Homer. He was one of the first to advance the theory that writing was unknown to Homer and to establish the concept of oral tradition... the Comparative View is one of the earliest of the attempts to work out Homeric geography..." (Blackmer).