Ovidius Naso. The Metamorphoses and Epistles, in English -- Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys], London, [colophon: by William Stansby], 1626, sm. folio, first complete edition of Sandys' translation, engraved title and portrait (title browned and frayed at edges and with small ink spot at centre, preliminaries and final leaves soiled and dampstained), late 19th-century brown levant morocco by the Rowfant bindery (joints rubbed), g.e. [Grolier, Wither to Prior 781; STC 18964]; and 7 other editions of Ovid in 8 vols., published 1632-1833, most illustrated. (9)

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Ovidius Naso. The Metamorphoses and Epistles, in English -- Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys], London, [colophon: by William Stansby], 1626, sm. folio, first complete edition of Sandys' translation, engraved title and portrait (title browned and frayed at edges and with small ink spot at centre, preliminaries and final leaves soiled and dampstained), late 19th-century brown levant morocco by the Rowfant bindery (joints rubbed), g.e. [Grolier, Wither to Prior 781; STC 18964]; and 7 other editions of Ovid in 8 vols., published 1632-1833, most illustrated. (9)

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Having already published Books I-V of this translation, Sandys came to Virginia in 1621 and thus the first edition of the complete work (Sandys wrote to King Charles) was 'bred in the New-world, of the rudeness whereof it cannot but participate'.

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