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Ovid's Fasti, or, the Romans sacred calendar. Translated into English verse. With explanatory notes. By William Massey; to which is prefix'd a plan of old Rome, taken from Marlianus's Topographia Romae, neatly engraved by T. Kitchin.
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Ovid (43 B.C.--17 or 18 A.D.)
[Fasti. English. 1757]
Ovid's Fasti, or, the Romans sacred calendar. Translated into English verse. With explanatory notes. By William Massey; to which is prefix'd a plan of old Rome, taken from Marlianus's Topographia Romae, neatly engraved by T. Kitchin.
London (Place), printed by H. Woodfall, for George Keith,, 1757.
viii, 347, [9] p., fold. engr. map ; 19.8 cm. (8°)
An advertisement for books sold by George Keith is bound before the frontispiece. Page vii of the preface is misnumbered vi. ESTC records two final advertisement leaves, one of which is here found at the front. ESTC t99236.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: Samuel Heacock Hammond/ m/c 1757 and in a different hand John Simpson / 1770.
Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt double-ruled borders and spine.
Reference Number 1470
Additional Names Hammond, Samuel Heacock; Simpson, John; Massey, William (1691--1764?); KITCHIN, Thomas (d. 1784); Marliani, Bartolomeo (d.$1560)
[Fasti. English. 1757]
Ovid's Fasti, or, the Romans sacred calendar. Translated into English verse. With explanatory notes. By William Massey; to which is prefix'd a plan of old Rome, taken from Marlianus's Topographia Romae, neatly engraved by T. Kitchin.
London (Place), printed by H. Woodfall, for George Keith,, 1757.
viii, 347, [9] p., fold. engr. map ; 19.8 cm. (8°)
An advertisement for books sold by George Keith is bound before the frontispiece. Page vii of the preface is misnumbered vi. ESTC records two final advertisement leaves, one of which is here found at the front. ESTC t99236.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: Samuel Heacock Hammond/ m/c 1757 and in a different hand John Simpson / 1770.
Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt double-ruled borders and spine.
Reference Number 1470
Additional Names Hammond, Samuel Heacock; Simpson, John; Massey, William (1691--1764?); KITCHIN, Thomas (d. 1784); Marliani, Bartolomeo (d.$1560)