Homer prince of poets
By: translated according to the Greeke, in twelve Bookes of his Iliads by Geo. Chapman ...
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1026
Publisher: Printed [by H. Lownes] for Samuel Macham
Published: 1610
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Translated from: gre
Number of pages: 214
Work titles: Iliad. Book 1-12
Notes: Signatures: [pi]² A⁸(-A8) B-Z⁴ Aa-Cc⁴(Cc⁴ blank) Dd² Ee⁴ Ff¹(=A8).

Errors in paging: numbers 136-155 omitted in paging; pages 195-198 numbered 115-118.

Title-page engraved by William Hole.--Johnson. Engraved and etched title-pages, p. 26, no. 5.

Head and tail pieces of Lownes' title-page borders.--McKerrow and Ferguson. Title-page borders no. 174-181, 184-187.

Printed between 14 November 1608, when the seven book translation was entered in the Stationer's register to Samuel Macham by assignment from John Windet, and 8 April 16... when the 24 book translation was entered to Nathaniel Butter by consent of Macham.--Stat. reg. v. 3, pages 175b and 207.

"The Epistle Dedicatorie" to Henry, Prince of Wales: sig. unsigned ²r-A²r.

"To the Reader" : sig. A³r-A⁶r.

Some states include two extra leaves with sonnets 1) to Queen Anne, 2) to Lady Wroth and the Countess of Montgomery.

Sonnets by George Chapman addressed to Stuart, Duke of Lennox; the Lord Chancellor [Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere]; Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury; Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk; Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; Lady Arabella Stuart; Lucy (Harington) Russell, Countess of Bedford; Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex; William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery; Robert Sidney, Viscount Lisle; Edward Wotton; Henry Wriothesly, Earl of Southampton; Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.

STC (2nd ed.) 13633