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Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books
Author:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Publication Information:
London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1717.
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages, xx, 6 unnumbered pages, 548 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, ; 39.5 cm
General Note:
Added illustrated t.-p. engr.

Dedication signed: S. Garth.

Translated by Dryden, Addison, Eusden, Mainwaring, Croxall, Tate, Gay, Pope, Congreve, Rowe, Garth and others.

Macdonald, Hugh. John Dryden, p. 65; Case, A.E. A bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750, p. 218.

Bound in half giltstamped brown morocco with brown cloth covered boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers.

Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, 1983.
Language:
English
Local Note:
With book-plate of Agnes & Alfred Stern.
Format :
Book