Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379
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Sale 2379 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures . . . By G[eorge] S[andys]. 15 engraved plates by Salomon Savery after Frantz Clein. [22], 38, 37, 46-124, 145-487, [1], 491-549, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. Folio, 306x201 mm, modern panelled calf; light dampstaining in blank upper margin of letterpress title, plate facing page 81 trimmed along fore edge, plate facing page 171 dampstained along fore and bottom edges with clean tear and 2 small pieces torn from blank outer margin, plate facing page 201 dampstained along bottom edge, piece torn from plate facing page 423 with image loss. Oxford: John Lichfield, 1632
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Lavishly produced second edition, the first to include illustrations and commentary; variant with errata with 2-line initials on 3V2v. Originally published in 1626, the translation was composed by Sandys in part during his 1621-25 stay in Virginia, where he served as treasurer of the colony. Alden 632/71; STC 18966.