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1805
Flaxman, John. THE | ILIAD OF HOMER | ENGRAVED FROM THE COMPOSITIONS | OF IOHN FLAXMAN R.A. SCVLPTOR, | LONDON. | [Vignette] | LONDON: | Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME, Paternoster Row, R.H. EVANS, Pall Mall, W. MILLER, Albemarle Street, & I & A. ARCH, Cornhill, March 1. 1805. <GEB [4], BL, British Museum Print Room, Bodley, et al>
Oblong 4°; Parker engraved two of the five plates added in 1805,[63] and William Blake engraved the other three. On 11 March 1808 Flaxman told William Hayley: "M.r Longman paid 5 Guineas each one with another to Mess.rs Blake, Parker &c for the plates they engraved for the Homer and with which those Artists were highly contented — ".[64]
Flaxman, John. THE | ODYSSEY OF HOMER | ENGRAVED FROM THE COMPOSITIONS | OF IOHN FLAXMAN R.A. SCVLPTOR, | LONDON. | [Head of Homer within a wreath.] | LONDON: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES & ORME, Paternoster Row, R.H. EVANS, Pall Mall, W. MILLER, Albemarle Street, & I & A. ARCH, Cornhill, March. 1st 1805. <Aberdeen, Auckland, Bayerische Staats-bibliothek (Munich), GEB (4 copies), Bodley (1707 b 5), Bombay, Boston Athenaeum (2 copies), Boston Public, California (Los Angeles), Clark Library (Los Angeles), Dalhousie, Durham Cathedral, Gennadius Library (American School of Classical Studies, Athens), Glasgow, Indiana, Kansas, Liverpool Public, Manchester Public, Metropolitan Museum (N.Y.), Mitchell Library (Sidney), National Library of Ireland, New South Wales State Library (Sydney), Newberry Library, Royal Academy, Sir John Soane Museum, Sydney, Toronto, Trinity College (Cambridge; 2 copies), Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), Victoria State Library (Melbourne), Victoria & Albert Museum, Victoria University (Victoria, British Columbia), Whitworth Art Gallery>
Oblong 4°; Flaxman made designs for The Iliad and The Odyssey in Rome in 1793, Piroli engraved two sets of plates for them, one for publication on the Continent and one for publication in England. The Odyssey plates were lost at sea, and in 1805 new copies were engraved by Parker (20) and Neagle (14).
See 1806 Hume (5).
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