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[OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (43 B.C.-c. 17 A.D.). Metamorphoses, in Italian.] Le trasformationi. Translated by Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568). Venice: Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, 1553.
4o (206 x 155 mm). PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER. Architectural woodcut title-border, Giolito's phoenix device contained in border, woodcut world map and 94 woodcut illustrations (11 repetitions), woodcut initials, printer's device at end. (Woodcut title border shaved at top, small loss and repair to outer margin affecting outer border, K2 lower margin repaired, some light mostly marginal staining.) Later limp vellum. Provenance: acquired from Georges Heilbrun, 1976.
FIRST GIOLITO EDITION PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER of the complete Dolce translation of the Metamorphoses in ottava rima. Giolito printed Dolce's translation in 3 issues: on large paper, on blue paper and on ordinary paper. The blue paper issue is EXTREMELY RARE. The sonnet to Charles V by Pietro Aretino, a friend of Dolce's, obscured in the Harvard copies, is untouched in this copy. Apparently this and the Harvard copy are the only copies recorded on blue paper. The woodcut world map includes America labeled "Nueva Hispania." Adams O-508; Brunet II:789. Mortimer Italian 342; Shirley 95.
4o (206 x 155 mm). PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER. Architectural woodcut title-border, Giolito's phoenix device contained in border, woodcut world map and 94 woodcut illustrations (11 repetitions), woodcut initials, printer's device at end. (Woodcut title border shaved at top, small loss and repair to outer margin affecting outer border, K2 lower margin repaired, some light mostly marginal staining.) Later limp vellum. Provenance: acquired from Georges Heilbrun, 1976.
FIRST GIOLITO EDITION PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER of the complete Dolce translation of the Metamorphoses in ottava rima. Giolito printed Dolce's translation in 3 issues: on large paper, on blue paper and on ordinary paper. The blue paper issue is EXTREMELY RARE. The sonnet to Charles V by Pietro Aretino, a friend of Dolce's, obscured in the Harvard copies, is untouched in this copy. Apparently this and the Harvard copy are the only copies recorded on blue paper. The woodcut world map includes America labeled "Nueva Hispania." Adams O-508; Brunet II:789. Mortimer Italian 342; Shirley 95.