Engraved representation of Homer on t.p. Port. of Hillaire on *4v. Twenty-four engravings illustrating the Iliad on rectos B1-G4, one ill. for each book. Beneath each ill. is a two-line Latin legend, followed by Hillaire's Latin and French summaries in letterpress Supplementary matter includes Decimus Magnus Ausonius' Periochae in Iliadem, *2r-*4r, and his Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troiano interfuerunt, H1r-H2r. Hillaire's poem "La course d'Ulisses," H2v-H4r Signatures: * A B-H Binding, c. 1: old calfskin. Gilt tooling on spine, title in gilt on red label. Gilt roll on edges of boards. Edges sprinkled red and brown Arthur Vershbow's accession no. on front pastedown of c. 1 (per dealer's description). Another collector's inscription in French on 2nd front free endpaper verso. Signature at head of title: Jacob ?Buedch. A number of collation notes on back pastedown Binding, c. 2: 19th-century olive calfskin, signed with a stamp at upper left-hand corner of front free endpaper verso: Petit succ.r de Simier. Triple fillets in blind along margins of boards. Red spine label with title in gilt. Edges of boards and turn-ins tooled in gilt. Page edges gilt John Landwehr's label at lower left-hand corner of front free endpaper verso, c. 2