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Metamorphoseon Libri XV
by Ovid
- Used
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- Seller
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Narberth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Lyon: S. Gryphe, 1554. CONTEMPORARY WHITE CALF GILT AND PAINTED with double-rule strapwork interlaced with vines and foliage (soiled, some wear and loss of paint); the upper right and lower left outer ribbons painted brown and the outer foliage green; the upper left and lower right outer ribbons left plain; the foliage around the central lozenge painted blue and the two leaves in the middle painted green; the six spine compartments gilt (worn), edges gilt and gauffered with ?tulips.
The competition was fierce and the audience large for this beloved text, which presents the mythology of classical Antiquity in Ovid's famously witty style. Moss records fifty-two printings of the Metamorphoses in France from 1496 to 1560 in folio, quarto, octavo and sextodecimo. Gryphe and his heirs account for thirty-one percent of the total and over sixty percent of the small format editions. Slightly browned, the front free endleaf removed, Broili armorial bookplate.
¶Moss, Ovid in Renaissance France 75,186; Gültlingen, Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon au 16e siècle V: 204,1289.
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- Bookseller
- Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11954
- Title
- Metamorphoseon Libri XV
- Author
- Ovid
- Format/Binding
- CONTEMPORARY WHITE CALF GILT AND PAINTED with double-rule strapwork interlaced with vines and foliage (soiled, some wear and los
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- S. Gryphe
- Place of Publication
- Lyon
- Date Published
- 1554
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