Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Ovid & Virgil; trans. George Sandys (1578-1644)
Ovid's Metamorphosis. Englished and Represented in Figures by G.S.

London: Printed by John Legat for Andrew Hebb, 1640.



Folio, illustrated with two copies of the engraved portrait of Ovid (one opposite engraved title, the other opposite the Life), engraved title page, and 15 full-page plates (one at the beginning of each book of the poem); with the first book of the Aeneid at the end; bound in worn contemporary boards, re-cornered and rebacked; later endleaves; some stains and marginal tears; 12 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.

STC 18968; Sabin 76460; ESTC S121931.

Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.