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first edition, engraved title, full page coat-of-arms of Urban VIII and 46 engraved emblems by Boetius a Bolswert, lacks half-title and licence leaves at end, tears repaired to emblem 28 (corner of margin), V1 & 2 (touching pagination), Z5 (with loss to headline & top 3 lines of text) & 6-8, 2B 2-4, 2C2-6 (with loss of text), stain to M4, little marking elsewhere, early name crossed out above coat-of-arms, few notes, names and note on endpapers, bookplate, contemporary calf, spine gilt, worn, front cover loose, ends of spine damaged, [Praz 376/7; Landwehr 345], Antwerp, H. Aertsen, 1624 § Flaxman (John) Compositions of Homer, Hesiod & Æschlyus, comprising: The Iliad of Homer, engraved title and 39 engraved plates,1805; The Odyssey of Homer, engraved title and 32 engraved plates, 1805; Days of Hesiod, engraved title and 37 engraved plates, 1817; Tragedies of Æschylus, engraved title, additional title and 32 engraved plates by Thomas Piroli & Frank Howard 1831, very slightly foxed, a little soiled, front free endpapers loose, upper hinges cracked, becoming loose, contemporary green morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, creases amd extremities worn, rubbed and scuffed, 1805-1831, 8vo & folio (2)