Ovid (46 BCE-17/18 CE). Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Latin and English. Translated into English by Dryden, Addison, Pope, Gay, and other “eminent hands”. Amsterdam: for Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.

2 volumes in one, folio (470 x 298 mm). Half-title; allegorical frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, with engraved vignette, 130 half-page copper engravings by Bernard Picart, Charles Le Brun, Maas, Romain, and others, woodcut head and tail pieces, and initials. (Light marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf, all edges stained red (rebacked, preserving original endpapers). Provenance: John Peachey (armorial bookplate); James Hale Bates (bookplate); Newsell's Library (label).

FIRST PICART EDITION, considered the most beautiful edition of Ovid’s epic of transformation, which Brunet says is sought after because of the wonderful plates by Picart. Brunet IV, p.285; Cohen-De-Ricci, pp.348-349 (“a magnificent work”); Lowndes III, p.1744.

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Ovid (46 BCE-17/18 CE). Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Latin and English. Translated into English by Dryden, Addison, Pope, Gay, and other “eminent hands”. Amsterdam: for Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.

The Library of Stephen J. Farber

Ovid (46 BCE-17/18 CE). Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Latin and English. Translated into English by Dryden, Addison, Pope, Gay, and other “eminent hands”. Amsterdam: for Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.

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