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  “ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS IN WESTERN LITERATURE”: RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF OVID’S METAMORPHOSIS

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  Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.

  London: Printed by William Stansby, 1626.

  First edition of George Sandys’ famous verse translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with engraved title page. Small folio, bound in contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved title by T. Cecil, and full-paged engraved portrait of Ovid by Marshall. In very good condition, names. Rare and desirable.

  Price: $7,800.00     Item Number: 146369

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  First Edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses Illustrated by Picart

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  Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands.

  Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.

  First English edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses with Picart's illustrations. Folio, two volumes in one, bound in full in early mottled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, engraved title vignette. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece, 130 half-page copper engravings by  Philip à Gunst, Jacob Folkema, and others, after Bernard Picart and others, with woodcut head- and tailpieces. In good condition with the binding worn in several places, numerous sections and leaves detached, rubbing, and toning. The text is written in Latin beside the English translation, with commentary by the Abbott Banier also translated from the French into English.

  Price: $7,200.00     Item Number: 149005

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