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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Les Metamorphoses . Translated by Thomas Corneille (1625-1709). Paris: Claude Barbin, 1669.
OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Les Metamorphoses . Translated by Thomas Corneille (1625-1709). Paris: Claude Barbin, 1669. 12 o ( 157 x 91 mm). Two etched frontispieces; numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Some minor occasional dampstaining.) Contemporary French calf gilt (a little wear). Provenance : acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1966. First edition of Corneille's translation of the first two books of the Metamorphoses , by the French dramatist and brother of Pierre, the "great Corneille." STC/ French 1601-1700 O-236.