Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculptures.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1717
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3042265
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], xx, [4], 548 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 4882. Pagination: [8], xx, [4], 548 p., [17] leaves of plates. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "1-1-0". Manuscript booksellers' codes in ink and pencil on front pastedown. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf (boards detached); gilt roll pattern border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown leather label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD) Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), editor John Dryden (1631 - 1700), editor Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719), editor Louis Du Guernier the Younger (d. London 1716) , engraver (printmaker) Michael Vandergucht (Antwerp 1660 – London 1725), engraver (printmaker) Elisha Kirkall (Sheffield c.1682 - 1742), engraver (printmaker) Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist Matthys Pool (Amsterdam 1670-1732), engraver (printmaker) George Vertue (London 1684 - London 1756), engraver (printmaker)