Description:
Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD),ed. Thomas Farnaby (c. 1575-1647) Metamorphoseon Libri XV. Paris: Aegidius Morellus, 1637. Folio, large woodcut printer's device of a fountain to title, illustrated with full-page engraved homage to Ovid and fifteen additional engravings (one for each book) by Salomon Savery (1594-1665) after the drawings of Francis Cleyn (1582-1658) originally used for the Sandys translation printed in London in 1636, good impressions, one illustrations with repairs, other with marginal tears, bound in continental parchment over boards, 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
[pi]2, A-G6, H4, I2 (I2 ?blank).
Estimate $200-300
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