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Ouid's Metamorphosis : Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures : An essay to the translation of Virgil's Aeneis

Additional place of imprint and printer from ESTC · Translator's dedication signed: George Sandys · Mostly in verse · The "essay" is a translation of Book 1 of "Aeneis." · With an additional title page, engraved. This and some of the plates are signed by Franz Cleyn, artist, and Salomon Savery · Signatures: píœ ℗œ́þ A-Éþ(-E4) F-3T́þ 3V℗ø (pi1=blank?) · With errata on 3V2 verso · The preliminaries and one setting of quire 3V (with three-line initials on the errata page) were printed in London by William Stansby. Variant: quire 3V printed at Oxford; errata page has two-line initials. Cf. ESTC · See: Davis, Richard Beale. "George Sandys v. William Stansby: The 1632 Edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis" The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society (1948) pp. 193-212 · Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection · English short title catalogue · Madan, F. Oxford books · Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) · Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.290.52 measures 34 cm and is bound in early calfskin panelled in blind with a border of blind-stamped

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