The engraving is ascribed to Hole, though without any very good reason, except that he had made the title-page of the Iliad, some four years earlier. It seems hardly probable that his awkward hand could have drawn the title for the Odyssey, and, while the same holds true of the engraver of the portrait, a comparison of the three plates perhaps would show that Butter employed more than one engraver.
Besides the portrait, our publisher added after the title-page, on a separate leaf, an engraved dedication "To the Imortall Memorie, of the Incomparable Heroe, Henrye Prince of Wales," who died in 1612. Two columns labelled "Ilias" and "Odyssæa," bound with a band inscribed "Musar: Hercul: Colum:," have below them lines ending:
"... Thow, dead. then; I
Liue deade, for giuing thee Eternitie
"Ad Famam.
"To all Tymes future, This Tymes Marck extend;
Homer, No Patrone founde; Nor Chapman, friend:
"Ignotus nimis omnibus;
Sat notus, moritur ſibi:"