Homer—The Odyssey [artistic full-leather binding] [illustrated by Flaxman]

Homer / The Odyssey / Warsaw 1935 / Ultima Thule Publishing / Artistic full-leather binding. Colored page edges / pp. X, 308 / 16 black-and-white illustrations / in very good condition, with a few underlines and pencil notes in the text

A piece in an elegant, leather bookbinder’s binding. The covers are outlined with gilded lines forming a double frame; gilded floral and palmette ornaments at the corners, with a small gilded ornament in the center of both covers. The spine is divided by raised raised bands into five sections, featuring a gilded title and small gilded ornaments. The bands are highlighted with gilded lines. Endpapers made of marbled paper; the edges of the pages are dyed.

A pre-war edition of one of the most important ancient epics, translated by Stanisław Mleczka into Polish hexameter. The volume is supplemented by a foreword by Stanisław F. Michalski and classical-style illustrations based on the works of John Flaxman, an English draftsman and sculptor who was one of the most important illustrators of Homeric themes at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.