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Les Metamorphoses d’Ovide; traduction de J. G. Fontanelle, adaptée au texte Latin du P. Jouvenci
by OVIDIUS
- Used
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- See description
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Milan, Italy
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About This Item
A UNIQUE COPY!!
12mo. 2 vols: [2], 352; [4], 291, [1] pp., with 16 folding engraved plates bound horizontally taken from a 16th century edition. Bound in quarter red morocco and paper over pasteboards. Some light scratches and scuffing to the binding, else very good. Light age toning. Clean and crisp throughout.
This curious copy of an early C19th edition of Ovid's Latin Metamorphoses with a French translation by J. G. Dubois Fontanelle, was cheaply printed in Paris by Duprat-Duverger and Delalain in 1806 in two 12mo volumes. It is "curious" because it contains a gorgeous folding engraved frontispiece and 15 other alike engraved plates bound horizontally at the beginning of each book of the Metamorphoses. After a careful investigation, we found out that all the other digitised copies of the same edition of this book, either do not have plates at all or they do, but the plates are totally different, being full-page, none folding and surely executed in a later style. Moreover, the initial plate is not just a frontispiece but a title-page framed by an elaborate architectural border and, after checking the paper watermarks, we can confirm that it belonged to the gorgeous 1584 Ovid (as also clearly stated on the plate) translated into vernacular Italian by G. A. dell'Anguillara, magnificently illustrated by Giacomo Franco and printed by the Giunti workshop of Venice. So, we have to thank the early owner of this book if today we can enjoy such a curious and beautiful "mash-up" of rich visual elements from a famous C16th illustrated edition and a C19th inexpensive and simple print.
12mo. 2 vols: [2], 352; [4], 291, [1] pp., with 16 folding engraved plates bound horizontally taken from a 16th century edition. Bound in quarter red morocco and paper over pasteboards. Some light scratches and scuffing to the binding, else very good. Light age toning. Clean and crisp throughout.
This curious copy of an early C19th edition of Ovid's Latin Metamorphoses with a French translation by J. G. Dubois Fontanelle, was cheaply printed in Paris by Duprat-Duverger and Delalain in 1806 in two 12mo volumes. It is "curious" because it contains a gorgeous folding engraved frontispiece and 15 other alike engraved plates bound horizontally at the beginning of each book of the Metamorphoses. After a careful investigation, we found out that all the other digitised copies of the same edition of this book, either do not have plates at all or they do, but the plates are totally different, being full-page, none folding and surely executed in a later style. Moreover, the initial plate is not just a frontispiece but a title-page framed by an elaborate architectural border and, after checking the paper watermarks, we can confirm that it belonged to the gorgeous 1584 Ovid (as also clearly stated on the plate) translated into vernacular Italian by G. A. dell'Anguillara, magnificently illustrated by Giacomo Franco and printed by the Giunti workshop of Venice. So, we have to thank the early owner of this book if today we can enjoy such a curious and beautiful "mash-up" of rich visual elements from a famous C16th illustrated edition and a C19th inexpensive and simple print.
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- Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68
- Title
- Les Metamorphoses d’Ovide; traduction de J. G. Fontanelle, adaptée au texte Latin du P. Jouvenci
- Author
- OVIDIUS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chez L. Duprat-Duverger, Auguste Delalain
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1806
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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