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OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. The .xv. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, by Arthur Golding Gentleman. [10] (of [12]), 200 leaves; lacks title and next leaf, both replaced in facsimile. Printed in black letter. 4to, modern brown oasis; contents washed with occasional residual soiling, corner off B6 affecting catchword, hole in center of B7 entering a few words, repaired hole in blank outer margin of B8. London: William Seres, 1567
first complete edition of Golding's version, the first 4 books having been published separately in 1565. "This was the first English translation of the whole of the Metamorphoses from the Latin (rather than, like Caxton's, from the French of the Ovide moralizé), and it was widely read . . . Shakespeare knew Golding's Ovid and recalls it in a number of plays" (ODNB). STC 18960.
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