Lot 206
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Ovidius Naso. Metamorphoseos Libri Moralizati, cum pulcherrimis fabularum principalium figuris, Lyons, Jacobo Huguetan, 1518, 4to, Roman type, title in red and black with engraved publisher's device, 15 woodcut illustrations (title holed with slight loss of text on verso, also with Portuguese blindstamp, some severe worming of margins, occasionally encroaching on text, e7 stained on verso, verso of Q6 and recto of Q7 heavily soiled, final leaves dampstained), modern boards.

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Ovidius Naso. Metamorphoseos Libri Moralizati, cum pulcherrimis fabularum principalium figuris, Lyons, Jacobo Huguetan, 1518, 4to, Roman type, title in red and black with engraved publisher's device, 15 woodcut illustrations (title holed with slight loss of text on verso, also with Portuguese blindstamp, some severe worming of margins, occasionally encroaching on text, e7 stained on verso, verso of Q6 and recto of Q7 heavily soiled, final leaves dampstained), modern boards.

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[Duplessis 38; Henkel 70; Brun 262: 'Suite de 15 figures, placées en tête des 15 livres paraissent avoir eté desinées par G. Leroy, mais d'un gravure de qualité inegale. Les meillures sont d'une taille sobre, et s'inspirent d'Oeuvres Italiennes avec un bonhomie toute Française'; not in Adams or Mortimer] The Italian model for the woodcuts is the Venetian edition of 1497 which continued to dominate Ovid illustrations for 50 years, being copied, varied and changed, acquiring Italian or French features. The commentary is by Rafaello Regio (Regius).

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