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Ovid (43 BCE-17/18 CE) Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the Most Eminent Hands.
London: Printed for Tonson, 1717.
Folio, regular paper issue, added engraved title bound as frontispiece, full-paged engraved portrait of dedicatee, the Princess of Wales by Vertue after Kneller; illustrated with fifteen full-paged engravings, one heading each book; bound in full contemporary tan English calf, sprinkled compartments with blind tooling, rebacked, later pastedowns and endleaves, 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.
