Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz’d, and Represented in Figures

by G.S. George Sandys by Ovid

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Fourth edition of the Sandys translation. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ovid, additional engraved title-page by Salamon Savery after Francisco Clein, and 15 engraved plates. Folio. Bound in full early twentieth-century red crushed levant morocco gilt, skillfully rebacked with the original spine laid down, by Stern & Dess, circa 1920. Portrait and engraved title slightly waterstained, the latter with one small closed tear repaired, else fine, in a

• Binding: Leather

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