Grenville Homer.- Homer. Iliav Kai Odduseia [The Iliad and the Odyssey], 4 vol., one of 25 large paper copies, the Marquis of Stafford's copy with presentation note bound-in, edited by Lord Buckingham, Lord Grenville and Mr. Grenville, half-titles, 2 engraved frontispieces (to vol. 1 & vol. 3), 3 engraved plates, ribbon markers, occasional faint off-setting, scattered faint spotting, handsome contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt arms to board centres, border tooled in blind with tiny gilt floral device to corners, spine lettered in gilt and tooled in blind with 5 double raised bands, gilt and blind inner doublures, g.e., joints fractionally rubbed, expert repairs to spine extremities, [Lowndes III, 109], 4to, Oxford, Clarendon Press, [1800].*** A handsome copy of this scarce and sumptuously printed work with an excellent provenance. Dibdin describes this edition as "the most critical ... which the University of Oxford has published." Provenance: Presentation note reading "Lord Buckingham, Lord Grenville and Mr Grenville present their Compliments to The Marquis of Stafford and request his acceptance of a Copy of the Large Paper Homer. 20 April 1807."