Description:
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) Ovid's Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1717. Folio, engraved title, engraved dedicatory frontispiece to the Princess of Wales, text illustrated with an additional sixteen full page engravings, contemporary calf, badly worn, 15 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
Estimate $400-600
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