Bernard Lintott. License to print Homer, 1715 May 6.

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Bernard Lintott. License to print Homer, 1715 May 6.

Royal license for Bernard Lintot granting him sole publication rights for fourteen years for the "compleat Translation of the Iliad of Homer from the Greek in Six Volumes in Folio by Alexander Pope with large Notes upon each Book...to encourage so useful a Work."

1 v. (3 p.) ; 31 x 20 cm.

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