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Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux / imprimez et enrichis de figures par ordre de Sa Majesté, et dediez à monseigneur le Dauphin.

Accession number
PML 126096
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published
A Paris : De l'imprimerie royal, 1676.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman; 1995.
Notes
Colophon: De l'Imprimerie royale, par Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, directeur de ladite Imprimerie.
Added engraved t.p. by Sébastien Le Clerc after Charles Le Brun. Engraved French royal arms on t.p. Dedication, preface, privilege and errata statement all in verse, p. [10]-[13] of preliminaries. Text has etchings by Le Clerc or François Chauveau on versos, followed by brief summary of subject in French prose and a line of Ovid's Latin; French verse on facing rectos.
Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ² A-3N⁴.
Etching on p. 334 upside-down.
Includes index.
Description
[14], 463, [9] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Brown morocco stamped gold on fore- and top-edges.
Classification
Department