April 12, 2024
OVID'S METAMORPHOSES 1822 2V DRYDEN ENGLISH 1ST CHISWICK PICKERING ORIG LEATHER
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Ovid, The Metamorphoses, with Preface, translated by Dryden, Addison, Maynwaring, and Croxall. (Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1822). 12mo (6 3/8" x 4 1/8"). Vol. 1, 280 pp.; Vol. 2, 288 pp. Complete in 2 volumes, these comprising volumes XCIV and XCV of the Whittingham printed series "The British Poets... including Translations, in one hundred volumes." Early, probably original full navy blue calf, four raised bands, compartments extra decorated gilt, contrasting spine titles gilt, boards ruled in blind. Illustrated with 3 full page steel engravings after designs by Stothard, Davis, and Howard, as called for. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATES EACH VOLUME S. RICARDO AND EMMALINE LAURA, LADY RIVERS. FIRST EDITION THUS. Of all Latin poets Ovid stands nearest to modern civilization, partlly on account of his fresh and vivid sense of the beauties of nature...partly because his subject is love. Often sensuous, [Ovid is] always graceful and strikingly true." DICKINSON, 1000 BEST BOOKS. Ovid's Metamorphoses also provides the source tales of many of Shakespeare's plays. This 1822 edition of Homer is printed by Charles Whittingham, often measured as the greatest English printer of the first half of the 19th century, "...a remarkable man who was an innovator in many printing techniques. He also conceived and published, from about 1814, one of the
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