/lit/ - Literature

>>12654113
It's dated 1905. It has a few black and white illustrations.
I have a few other books like this (Iliad, Odyssey and the Nibelungenlied in two volumes). It's part of a series that was published 1902-1910 called "Illustrated Library of Great Writers".
The edges are usually covered in red paint, or have a "marbled" look. (Depending on which printing run you have. There is also a series with purple-leather covers.
There are like 30 something volumes like this, but most aren't really interesting. The few I have I only got because there was no other edition of the translations that these ones use. (Or no new edition at all, like with the text in the second volume of the Nibelungenlied, which is a Swedish and was never republished during the past ~110 years.)
I got hooked on "archaising" language during the past year or so, and it's pleasurable to read epics like this.