OVID, (43 B.C.--17 or 18 A.D.)
[Metamorphoses. French. 1737]
Les métamorphoses d'Ovide, traduites en françois, avec des remarques et des explications historiques par M. l'abbé Banier, ... Nouvelle édition, augmentée de la vie d'Ovide & enrichie de figures en taille-douce. ...
A Paris chez Piget fils, 1737.
3 vols ; 17.0 cm. (12º)
I: [4], lxxxiv, [48], 287, [1] p.
II: [4], 422 p., [6] pl.
III: [4], 363, [17] p., [12] pl.

Abbé Banier's translation first appeared in 1732. 'La vie d'Ovide tirée de ses écrits, par M. G***'. The first volume of the present copy has 'fils' rubbed out from the imprint.

Copy Notes Volume I has the front pastedown inscribed in ink 7/6 3 Vol with bookseller's code, and the front free-endpaper inscribed in pencil 3v -5s-. Front free-endpaper additionally annotated in pencil p.15 Saturn -- Adam / Janus -- Noah, with a marginal mark of emphasis beside the corresponding passage. Further bookseller's code in ink on rear pastedown.

Binding Volumes I--II: C18th calf, gilt-ruled spines. Volume III: C18th sheep, gilt-ruled spine.

Reference Number 3939