Foulis Press.- Homer. Iliados [&] Odysseias [graece], edited by Jacob Moor and George Muirhead, together 4 vol., Greek text with Latin dedication, preface and index, with all half-titles but without the general title as usual, faint traces of old ink signature to titles (partly erased), occasional light spotting and some soiling to upper margins but generally a good clean copy, Odyssey vol.2 with marginal tears to 2q2 & 4g (the first repaired), armorial bookplate of G.H.Lindsay, contemporary polished calf with roll-tooled border in blind, spines gilt, a little rubbed and marked with a few scuffs, splits to joints, vol.1 rebacked preserving old gilt spine, other spine ends a little worn or repaired, [Gaskell 319], folio, Glasgow, Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1756-58.

⁂ The magnum opus of the press, for which it was awarded the Silver Medal of the Select Society of Edinburgh in both 1756 and 1757. The Foulis brothers had the Greek font cut by Alexander Wilson, and its setting in the Homer shows it to splendid effect.