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Ouid's Metamorphosis   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Sandys, George, 1578-1644, translator
Young, Robert, -1643, printer
Grismond, John, bookseller
Title
Ouid's Metamorphosis
Publisher
London : Printed by Robert Young, are to be sold by I. Grismond
Description
Translator's dedication signed: George Sandys
"The minde of the frontispeece, and argument of this worke ... ": facing title page
Includes index
"The life of Ovid": leaves A3r-A6r
"Ovid defended": leaves A8r-A12r
Signatures: A℗£℗ø(A1+chi1) B-V℗£℗ø
Title page within engraved ornamental border
Errors in signing: leaf L2 missigned K2; leaf L4 missigned K4; leaf Q5 missigned P5
English short title catalogue
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)
Cataloged
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in late 19th-century tan buckram. A maroon leather label is present on the spine. The bookplate of the BPL Bates Fund is present on the front pastedown and the perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page. Leaf chi1 ("The minde of the frontispeece") is wanting, as are H6 and V3-V12

Subjects: Metamorphosis; Mythology, Classical; Fables, Latin
Language English
Publication date 1628
publication_date QS:P577,+1628-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
ouidsmetamorphos00ovid
Notes Text on the inner margin is lost due to tight binding. No copyright or contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1050255028
Source
Internet Archive identifier: ouidsmetamorphos00ovid
https://archive.org/download/ouidsmetamorphos00ovid/ouidsmetamorphos00ovid.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library

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