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Metamorphoseos libri XV.
Commentary by
Raffaele Regio, Placidus Lactantius, and Pietro Lavinio. Title in red and black within
woodcut ornamental border; 62 woodcut illustrations, including large diagram of the
winds on AA10v. [10], 172 leaves. Folio, 275x196 mm, limp liturgical manuscript vellum,
recased, endpapers renewed; contents browned, dampstained, and dampwrinkled, marginal
soiling, worming in blank lower inner corners in middle of volume, scattered dark stains,
genitalia inked out in a few illustrations, hole in blank gutter of A1, hole through O2 caus-
ing text and image loss, last leaf torn at top and mounted with substantial text loss.
(Venice: Elisabetta Rusconi, 1527)
[1,000/2,000]
This is one of a small number of works produced by Elisabetta Rusconi between 1524 and
1527, following the death of her husband, the printer Giorgio Rusconi, and the departure of
her sons from the business. Cf. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 338 (1517 edition).
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Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mytholo-
giz’d, and Represented in Figures . . . By G[eorge] S[andys].
15 engraved plates by
Salomon Savery after Frantz Clein. [22], 38, 37, 46-124, 145-487, [1], 491-549, [1] pages,
including engraved frontispiece portrait. Folio, 306x201 mm, modern panelled calf; light
dampstaining in blank upper margin of letterpress title, plate facing page 81 trimmed along
fore edge, plate facing page 171 dampstained along fore and bottom edges with clean tear
and 2 small pieces torn from blank outer margin, plate facing page 201 dampstained along
bottom edge, piece torn from plate facing page 423 with image loss.
Oxford: John Lichfield, 1632
[800/1,200]
Lavishly produced second edition, the first to include illustrations and commentary; variant with
errata with 2-line initials on 3V2v. Originally published in 1626, the translation was com-
posed by Sandys in part during his 1621-25 stay in Virginia, where he served as treasurer of
the colony. Alden 632/71; STC 18966.
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