Ovidius Naso. Metamorphosis cum luculentissimis Raphaelis Regii enarrationibus, [colophon: Tusculano, in edibus Alexandri Paganini, 1526], 4to, second Paganini edition, text in a single column set within commentary in two columns, marginalia, in two sizes of Paganini's semi-italic type, strapwork title border, circular diagram of the winds on leaf a8v, 62 woodcut illustrations, including two repetitions, strapwork and floral initials (some leaves yellowed by damp), modern marbled boards. [Duplessis 47; Lechi, Tipografia Bresciana, 105, 14; Mortimer, Italian Books II, 340; BMC of Italian Books 481; Brunet IV, 271; Graesse V, 76]

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Ovidius Naso. Metamorphosis cum luculentissimis Raphaelis Regii enarrationibus, [colophon: Tusculano, in edibus Alexandri Paganini, 1526], 4to, second Paganini edition, text in a single column set within commentary in two columns, marginalia, in two sizes of Paganini's semi-italic type, strapwork title border, circular diagram of the winds on leaf a8v, 62 woodcut illustrations, including two repetitions, strapwork and floral initials (some leaves yellowed by damp), modern marbled boards. [Duplessis 47; Lechi, Tipografia Bresciana, 105, 14; Mortimer, Italian Books II, 340; BMC of Italian Books 481; Brunet IV, 271; Graesse V, 76]

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The woodcuts are copied from the Venice edition of 1497. Sander cites the blocks as being reduced copies of a Rusconi set used in 1521. Paganini published three further vols. of Ovid in the same year, forming the complete works 'très difficile de réunir' (Brunet).

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