2 volumes, 4to. Text in Greek and English. Original tan niger ruled in gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in the second, top edges gilt (very minor loss to top of Iliad, minor spotting to boards); original slipcases (rubbing to extremes). Provenance: Stanley William Sykes (1894-1961), British crime writer and anaesthetist (bookplate in The Iliad).

LIMITED EDITIONS, number 1,071 of 1,450 copies of The Iliad and number 1,008 of 1,300 copies of The Odyssey. The Nonesuch Press was founded in 1922 by Francis Meynall, his wife Vera Mendel, and their friend David Garnett. Over nearly forty years of operation the press produced 140 books, of which The Iliad and The Odyssey were considered to be among their finest. Nonesuch Century, 72 and 78