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Metamorphoseon Libri XV
by Ovid
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Narberth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Lyon: S. Gryphe, 1554. CONTEMPORARY WHITE CALF GILT AND PAINTED WITH A DESIGN OF INTERLACING DOUBLE-RULE VINE STRAPWORK AND FOLIAGE (soiled, some wear and loss of paint). The upper right and lower left outer ribbons were painted brown and the outer foliage painted green. The upper left and lower right outer ribbons were left plain. The foliage around the central lozenge was painted blue and the two leaves in the middle painted green; the six spine compartments gilt (worn) and the edges gilt and gauffered with ?tulips. Pocket edition executed in small italic type (69 mm. for 20 lines). The competition was fierce and the market large for this text. The careful work of Moss records fifty-two printings of the Metamorphoses in France from 1496 to 1560 in folio, quarto, octavo and sextodecimo. Gryphe and his heirs account for thirty-one percent of the total and over sixty percent of the small formats editions. That offered here is fashionably clothed in the high style of the time (the front free endleaf removed), Broili armorial bookplate.
¶Moss, Ovid in Renaissance France 75,186; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. Lateinische Schriftsteller II: 648; Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise VIII: 272 (Lyon BM only); Gültlingen, Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon au 16e siècle V: 204,1289 (Lyon BM only).
¶Moss, Ovid in Renaissance France 75,186; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. Lateinische Schriftsteller II: 648; Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise VIII: 272 (Lyon BM only); Gültlingen, Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon au 16e siècle V: 204,1289 (Lyon BM only).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11954
- Title
- Metamorphoseon Libri XV
- Author
- Ovid
- Format/Binding
- CONTEMPORARY WHITE CALF GILT AND PAINTED WITH A DESIGN OF INTERLACING DOUBLE-RULE VINE STRAPWORK AND FOLIAGE (soiled, some wear
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- S. Gryphe
- Place of Publication
- Lyon
- Date Published
- 1554
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About the Seller
Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
Biblio member since 2020
Narberth, Pennsylvania
About Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
Since 1979 we have specialized in pre-1830 European book and manuscripts, with an emphasis on early printing, illustration, copy specific characteristics, bindings, and condition.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Calf
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