Notes on Homer's The Iliad

All copies of The Iliad with the Highet intro (166.2) have the translator's name Myers misspelled as Meyers on the title page. (You'd think that in the 12 years this version was in print somebody would have fixed it -- especially since Highet himself pointed out the error early on.)

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     5

First inverse DJ number:     169

Dates in print:    1929 - 1951 (no intro)
                             1951 - 1963 (Highet intro)
                             1963 - 1975 (Rees intro)

Toledano number:     166.1 (no intro)
                                    166.2 (Highet intro)
                                    166.3 (Rees intro)

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Confirmed buckram sighting?              yes

Intro author:     Gilbert Highet (1951 edition)
                            Ennis Rees (1963 edition)

Genre:     Poetry

Curriculum:     Ancient Western World (Classics)

Original language:      Greek

Translator:      Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers (1929 - 1963)
                          Ennis Rees (1963 - 1970)

Thanks to the contributors:
Henry Toledano Darrell Johnson Barry Neavill

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