Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Ovid (43 BCE-17/18 CE) Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys]. Small folio, [a]3 (lacking [a]1, "The Minde of the Frontispeece" in verse), b6, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4, Ss6; illustrated with engraved title by T. Cecill (trimmed at gutter and pasted on a tight gutter guard), and full-paged engraved portrait of Ovid by Marshall; bound in full later leather, ex libris William Horatio Crawford, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board, rebacked, 9 1/2 x 6 in. London: [Stansby], 1626
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First edition of Sandys' translation; STC 18964; Sabin 76456; ESTC S121917.