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OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses argumentis ex Luctatio grammatico collectis expositae. Engraved portrait of Ovid; 178 full-page engravings by Pieter van der Borcht, with prose synopses of the stories by Luctatius [i. e., Lactantius Placidus] on facing pages; printer's device at end. 361, [21] (of [23]) pages, including engraved title; lacks final blank. Oblong 16mo, 93x115 mm, 19th-century vellum boards, soiled; contents toned and soiled with intermittent light marginal dampstaining, crude partial hand-coloring on around a dozen images, blank lower outer corner torn off several leaves. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana apud viduam & Joannem Moretum, (1591)
