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Metamorphoses, argumentis brevioribus ex Luctantio Grammatico collectis expositae: una cum iconibusby OVIDIUS Naso, Publius
Book description: Antwerp: Plantin, 1590-1591. Full Calf. Very Good +. First illustrated edition of a very early juvenilia, volume II only of the two-volume Metamorphoses abbreviated. Oblong 16mo (4 1/8" x 5 1/8"); pagination: 209-361, plus 17 pages, including an Index and approbatio, with 72 plates on 71 leaves (lacking 4 plates and the text on the verso). This copy has two approbation leaves, both dated 1590. The final plate is the full-page Plantin device with the legend 'Labore et Constantinia.' Newly bound by Fitterer to style in full calf with a gilded spine. Ascribed to both the medieval grammarian Aelius Donatus and to Lactantius Placidus. The etchings are by Pieter van der Borcht, who signed the plate on p. 357. (Van der Borcht went to work for Christopher Plantin at an early age and designed many of his typographical ornaments.) Funck 374-375; Adams O-504; Hollstein III, 100, nos. 200-377; Adams O-504; Delen II, 92-93.
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