Ovid (43 B.C.--17 or 18 A.D.)
[Epistolae heroïdum. 1744]
P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistolarum Heroidum liber una cum versione prosaica, ... et insuper argumentis & notis Minellii Anglice redditis ... In usum scholarum. Operâ & studio N. Bailey. Secunda editio.
London (Place), typis Jacobi Roberts, impensis autem Societatis Stationariorum 1744.
[8], 64, 67--338 p. ; 18.8 cm. (8°)

First edition: 1728. Additional facing title-page in English: P. Ovid Naso's book of the epistles of heroes, together with a prose version, ... For the use of schools. Pagination skips pp. 65--66; text and register continuous. Title-pages printed in red and black. ESTC t177919.

Copy Notes Bought from Thomas Boone for 1s. 6d., 24 November 1808. (Spiers Box). Boone's hieroglyphs and price =1s=6d pencilled on front free-endpaper.

Binding C18th sprinkled sheep, blind-ruled borders, blind-tooled scallops along spine edge of boards.

Reference Number 1471

Additional Names Thomas Boone; Bailey, Nathan (d.$1742); Minellius, Johannes (1625--1683); Minell, Jan