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Ovid - Shakespeare's Ovid - 1904 (Limited, No. 229/350)

Ovid - Shakespeare's Ovid - 1904 (Limited, No. 229/350)

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Title

Shakespeare's Ovid Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses

Author

Ovid; Translated by Arthur Golding; Edited by W. H. D. Rouse

Year

1904

Publisher

De la More Press, London 

Description

Limited edition, No. 229/350. The Metamorphoses is Ovid’s Latin narrative poem, considered his magnum opus, chronicling the world from creation to the deification of Julius Caesar. This edition presents Shakespeare’s Ovid, Arthur Golding’s 1567 translation, with an engraved frontispiece. Bookplate of Colin Stanley Crosse to front free endpaper. Bound in original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, with Royal College of Art label to the front pastedown.

[14], vi, 321 pp.

Condition

Roughly cut pages; consistent foxing and discoloration in gutter; otherwise clean internally.

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