ID 1032900 
Lot 245  | Ovid's Metamorphoses
Valeur estimée
$ 1 000 – 1 500 
A deluxe bilingual edition of Ovid's great epic, with illustrations after Bernard Picart. The text is a blend of illustrious translator-poets and commentators, taken from a French edition edited by the Abbott Banier and published in Paris the same year. Cohen-de Ricci 768; see Ray p. 7 and Stuart Gillespie and Robert Cummings, "A Bibliography of Ovidian Translations and Imitations in English," in Translation and Literature 13 (2004), pp. 207-218.
Two volumes in one, folio (464 x 302mm). Half title in vol. 1, title pages for both vols printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece, engravings after B. Picart in text (occasional light foxing, a few sheets toned). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, edges red (worn at extremities, a few scrapes to boards). Provenance: Francisco Bayley (inscription on half title) – Lucien Allienne (bookplate, dated 1950).
| Artiste: | Ovidius (43 avant J.-C. - 18) | 
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| Lieu d'origine: | Les Pays-Bas | 
| Artiste: | Ovidius (43 avant J.-C. - 18) | 
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| Lieu d'origine: | Les Pays-Bas | 
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