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First Edition. Good copy only, lacking its front board but complete from the title page forward. Remaining covers full leather, showing expected wear to the panel edges and minor scuffs to the rear board. Spine heavily rubbed and flaking. Text block remains notably clean and strong, showing only faint foxing to the margins. A very serviceable example. Physical description; 130 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; "In usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis" (for the use of Westminster School). Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses with explanatory notes. Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Subjects; Metamorphosis Mythology Poetry Early works to 1800. Latin poetry 1st century. Westminster School Textbooks. Latin language Readers Poetry. 1st century BCE. 1st century. 19th century (edition). School textbooks. Extracts. Annotated editions. Poetry. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good copy only, lacking its front board but complete from the title page forward. Remaining covers full leather, showing expected wear to the panel edges and minor scuffs to the rear board. Spine heavily rubbed and flaking. Text block remains notably clean and strong, showing only faint foxing to the margins. A very serviceable example. Physical description; 130 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; "In usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis" (for the use of Westminster School). Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses with explanatory notes. Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Subjects; Metamorphosis Mythology Poetry Early works to 1800. Latin poetry 1st century. Westminster School Textbooks. Latin language Readers Poetry. 1st century BCE. 1st century. 19th century (edition). School textbooks. Extracts. Annotated editions. Poetry. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Good copy only in contemporary full leather over boards, now scuffed and dust-dulled. Lacks title page and six unnumbered pages at the end; main text of books 1-8 complete. Corners bumped, panel edges worn. Endbands crumbling slightly; joints cracked with spine supports holding secure. Some pencil marks on pastedowns, with reader inscription (1809) in ink to front. Text block remains tight and strong overall, showing the expected faint foxing or offsetting of age. A very serviceable copy of a 300-year-old book. Physical description; x, 258 pages : illustrations, plates ; 17 cm. Notes; Publication details from catalogue. Contains books 1-8. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Subjects; Metamorphosis Mythology Poetry Early works to 1800. Mythology, Classical Poetry Early works to 1800. Latin poetry Translations into English 18th century. 1st century BCE. 1st century. 18th century. Illustrated. Plates. Engravings. Poetry. Translations. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Good copy only in contemporary full leather over boards, now scuffed and dust-dulled. Lacks title page and six unnumbered pages at the end; main text of books 1-8 complete. Corners bumped, panel edges worn. Endbands crumbling slightly; joints cracked with spine supports holding secure. Some pencil marks on pastedowns, with reader inscription (1809) in ink to front. Text block remains tight and strong overall, showing the expected faint foxing or offsetting of age. A very serviceable copy of a 300-year-old book. Physical description; x, 258 pages : illustrations, plates ; 17 cm. Notes; Publication details from catalogue. Contains books 1-8. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Subjects; Metamorphosis Mythology Poetry Early works to 1800. Mythology, Classical Poetry Early works to 1800. Latin poetry Translations into English 18th century. 1st century BCE. 1st century. 18th century. Illustrated. Plates. Engravings. Poetry. Translations. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Very Good +. 24mo; 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (120 x 63 mm); title page with printer's mark; 309 pp starting with a calendar, in Latin . Brown calf with gilt fillets and fleur-de-lys on the covers 4 raised bands with gilt titling and decorations, binding rubbed but solid, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; pages clean and bright. The 3rd volume of Ovid's works in the Elsevir edition contains a calendar of feasts divided by months, short notes on the poet's life, an elegy written by the Renaissance poet Angelo Poliziano upon the death of Ovid, Fastorum lib. VI. Tristium V. De ponto IV. Dirae in Ibin, from the Venetian edition by diplomat and writer Andrea Navagero (1483 - 1529). Elsevir / Elzevir is the name of a family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries known for elegance of design, neatness, clearness and regularity of type, and beauty of paper. The duodecimo series of "Elzevirs" became very famous and very desirable among bibliophiles, who sought to obtain the tallest and freshest copies of these tiny books. Daniel Elsevir, whose name appears as the publisher of this small tome, was the son and nephew of the firm's founders, Bonaventura and Abraham. …