12mo (156 x 89 mm). (Title-page strengthened and soiled, light marginal toning, a few occasional spots.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, fore-corners worn, endpapers renewed but for front pastedown).

FIRST EDITION OF HOBBES'S TRANSLATION OF HOMER'S ILIAD, completed at the end of his life when censorship meant he no longer had other means of expressing his views in print. It is believed that his Homer continued with the arguments of Leviathan. For example, on the rightful place of kings, Hobbes depicts Agamemnon as a more worthy king than in Homer. ESTC R29487; Macdonald & Hargraves 76; Wing H2558.