Ovidius Naso -- Masson (Joannes): P. Ovidii Nasonis Vita, Amsterdam, apud viduam Joannis Janssonii, 1708, 8vo, presentation copy, front free endpaper inscribed, 'Amplissimo praestantissimo reverendoque admodum in Christo Patri D. D. Gulielmo Lloyd, Vigorniensi Episcopo, D.D. Auctor', on the last page a correction of the text in the same hand, engraved frontispiece and coat-of-arms, 19th-century red morocco, gilt-tooled morocco doublures.

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Ovidius Naso -- Masson (Joannes): P. Ovidii Nasonis Vita, Amsterdam, apud viduam Joannis Janssonii, 1708, 8vo, presentation copy, front free endpaper inscribed, 'Amplissimo praestantissimo reverendoque admodum in Christo Patri D. D. Gulielmo Lloyd, Vigorniensi Episcopo, D.D. Auctor', on the last page a correction of the text in the same hand, engraved frontispiece and coat-of-arms, 19th-century red morocco, gilt-tooled morocco doublures.

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Presentation copy, inscribed to Bishop William Lloyd of Worcester. John Masson (1680-1750) was a French scholar who, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, was forced to take refuge in Holland and England. He wrote biographies of Horace and Pliny, as well as Ovid.

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