OVID (43 B.C.- ?17 A.D.). Metamorphoseon libri XV. Frankfurt: Georg Corvinus, Sigismund Feyerabend & heirs of Wigand Gallus, 1563.
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OVID (43 B.C.- ?17 A.D.). Metamorphoseon libri XV. Frankfurt: Georg Corvinus, Sigismund Feyerabend & heirs of Wigand Gallus, 1563.

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OVID (43 B.C.- ?17 A.D.). Metamorphoseon libri XV. Frankfurt: Georg Corvinus, Sigismund Feyerabend & heirs of Wigand Gallus, 1563.

Small 8° (152 x 100mm). 178 woodcut illustrations, printer’s device at end. (Occasional very light spotting.) Green morocco gilt by Treutz-Bauzonnet, triple fillet border on sides, spine lettered and lavishly decorated in gilt, turn-ins, gilt edges (new endpapers). Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).

This edition was illustrated by Virgil Solis. Each illustration has a quotation of Ovid and Johann Posthius van Germershem’s translation into German beneath it.

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