OVID, (43 B.C.--17 or 18 A.D.)
[Metamorphoses. French. 1738]
Les métamorphoses d'Ovide, traduites en François, avec des remarques et des explications historiques. Par M. l'abbé Banier, ... Nouvelle edition, revûe, corrigéee, augmentée de la Vie d'Ovide & du Jugement de Paris, enrichie de figures en taille-douce. ...
A Paris chez Nyon pere. Didot. Huart. Quillau. Nyon fils, 1738.
2 vols ; 25.5 cm. (4º)
I: [4], lxi, [27], 403, [1] p., add. engr. t.-pl. : engr. illus.
II: [4], 495, [9] p., engr. frontis. : engr. illus.

Abbé Banier's French translation of the Metamorphoses first appeared in a bilingual edition published in Amsterdam, 1732 (q.v.). Engraved head-piece illustrations by Johannes Matheus, I. Briot and others. Title-pages printed in red and black. Pagination of vol. II irregular.

Copy Notes Bought from Thomas Boone for 12s. on 23 June 1808. (Spiers Box). Volume II inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper avec figs./ 2 toms: 12s/ .kf.

Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt-tooled spines, red spine-labels, marbled edges.

Reference Number 2924