OVID. *Metamorphoses*. Or: A Wonderful and Strange Description of Humans, Animals, and Other Creatures… Frankfurt am Main, Johann Gaurn, 1609. In-4, rigid…

OVID. *Metamorphoses*. Or: A Wonderful and Strange Description of Humans, Animals, and Other Creatures… Frankfurt am Main, Johann Gaurn, 1609. In-4, rigid vellum overbound (contemporary binding). A lovely Gothic edition printed in two columns, with the title printed in red and black and set within a woodcut frame, illustrated with numerous woodcut vignettes throughout the text. The translation, by Georg Wickram of Colmar, was first published in 1545 in Mainz. Scorched paper, as was often the

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