Proctor (Robert).- Homer. Odysseia [graece], one of 225 copies, printed in red and black in Robert Proctor's "Otter" Greek type, Oxford, 1909
Proctor (Robert).- Homer. Odysseia [graece], one of 225 copies, printed in red and black in Robert Proctor's "Otter" Greek type, leather book-label of Haven O'More, original cloth-backed boards, paper label, uncut, a fine copy in board slip-case (rubbed), 4to, Oxford, printed at the University Press, 1909.
⁂ Printed in Proctor's handsome Greek type, based on the Alcala font of 1514 (but with the addition of capitals by Proctor) and cut by Edward Prince. Proctor, bibliographer at the British Museum, died before any books could be printed but he bequeathed the type to Emery Walker and Sydney Cockerell who arranged for the printing of the Oresteia by Aeschylus in 1904 followed by the Odyssey.
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Proctor (Robert).- Homer. Odysseia [graece], one of 225 copies, printed in red and black in Robert Proctor's "Otter" Greek type, leather book-label of Haven O'More, original cloth-backed boards, paper label, uncut, a fine copy in board slip-case (rubbed), 4to, Oxford, printed at the University Press, 1909.
⁂ Printed in Proctor's handsome Greek type, based on the Alcala font of 1514 (but with the addition of capitals by Proctor) and cut by Edward Prince. Proctor, bibliographer at the British Museum, died before any books could be printed but he bequeathed the type to Emery Walker and Sydney Cockerell who arranged for the printing of the Oresteia by Aeschylus in 1904 followed by the Odyssey.