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Ovid's Epistles / translated by several hands ; adorn'd with cutts.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection LatC Ov403.9 Eg716o
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Standardized Title:
- Heroides. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Epistolary poetry, Latin--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.
- Epistolary poetry, Latin.
- Latin poetry--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.
- Latin poetry.
- Mythology, Classical--Poetry.
- Mythology, Classical.
- Latin poetry--Translations into English.
- Epistolary poetry, Latin--Translations into English.
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Ovid.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bedwell, Martin, 1655-1700 (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages, 221 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- e.s, r,he s.s. AnFr (3) 1716 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head ..., MDCCXVI [1716]
- Notes:
- Bookseller's advertisement on [7] p. at end.
- "Lately printed, Ovid's art of love, and Remedy of love, with the court of love, and history of love. Translated by several Hands. Sold by J. Tonson"--title page, below imprint.
- Preface by Dryden, who also translated some of the letters.
- Signatures: A¹² a⁶ B-K¹² L⁶.
- Page 36 mispaginated as 3.
- Title page on leaf A2 ; leaf A1 blank?
- "The three epistles of Aulus Sabinus in answer to as many of Ovid. Made English by Mr. Salusbury": p. [203]-221.
- Pagination does not match ESTC record T99266 for 1716 edition with same Jacob Tonson imprint; pagination does match 1720 edition but imprint varies (cf. ESTC T99246). Arthur Case in "Poetical miscellanies" #165i records 1716 edition with this pagination but does not record plate facing p. 89 as found in this work. Pagination and plate description does match Case #165j but the imprint does not.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate: Martin Bedwell, Westminster.
- Culture Class Collection copy wanting leaf A1 engraved frontispiece and plates.
- Cited in:
- Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies, 165(i)
- Contains:
- Sabinus, Angelus, 15th century. Three epistles.
- OCLC:
- 12406567
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