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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (43 B.C.-17/18 A.D.). All Ovids Elegies: 3 Bookes . Translated from Latin into English by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-93), epigrams by Sir John Davies (1569-1626). "Middlebourgh" [London: c.1630].
OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (43 B.C.-17/18 A.D.). All Ovids Elegies: 3 Bookes . Translated from Latin into English by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-93), epigrams by Sir John Davies (1569-1626). "Middlebourgh" [London: c.1630]. 8° (139 x 83mm). Collation: A-F 8. Title with type-ornament of 3 leaves and 2 hands. (Last leaf restored without loss, one catchword just trimmed, minor marginal repairs.) Crimson crushed morocco gilt by Bumpus, gilt edges. Third unabridged edition of Ovid's Elegies in English, translated by Christopher Marlowe. The translations are "generally credited to Marlowe's Cambridge years" (F. Bowers, The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe , vol. II, p.310). Ten of the more erotic elegies had appeared in about 1594-95, and the first complete edition, representing a different tradition, in about 1602. All early editions of the Elegies are rare. The first is known in a unique copy, and others in only a handful. In 1599 the Bishop of London ordered that copies of the work be burned. The attribution to Ben Jonson of the second version of Elegy 15 in Book I is accepted; it was included in the 1602 edition of Poetaster . STC 18932; Pforzheimer 641 (as STC 18933); Grolier, Langland to Wither , 169.