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The
Odyssey of Homer
translated from the Greek by
T. E. Lawrence
PUBLICATION HISTORY
T.E. Lawrence's translation
of the Odyssey was published in England and America in 1932. Both
editions were designed by the great American typographer Bruce Rogers.
The English edition (in
which the translator's name is not stated) was limited to 530 copies. It was
printed by Sir Emery Walker in Bruce Rogers' Centaur type, on a specially made
pale-grey paper. At the beginning of each Book is roundel in a classical Greek
design, printed on gold leaf. The Emery Walker-Bruce Rogers Odyssey is
now regarded as one of the most beautiful fine-press books of the twentieth
century.
The American trade edition,
published in New York by Oxford University Press, is also elegant. Here, the
translator's name is given. There were many reprints, some of which were
imported for sale in England after Lawrence's death in 1935.
Lawrence's translation
proved to be one of the most successful of its time. It has been continuously in
print for more than seventy-five years.
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