Ovid's Metamorphoses. Translated from the Latin, by Dr. Garth, and others.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217997
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill. ; 17cm (12mo). Without the series half-titles and plates. Vol. 1 of series inscribed: 100 vols 18/-/ [i.e. for whole series]. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case C. Shelf 5. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: nineteenth-century imitation green morocco (sheep); gilt tooled; gilt lettered and numbered spines: British poets ... Uniform with series.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD) Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) Alexander Stopford Catcott (1692-1749) Dr Samuel Croxall (d.1572) John Dryden (1631 - 1700) Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) John Gay (1685 – 1732) Arthur Maynwaring (1668-1712) John Ozell (d.1743) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Nahum Tate (1652-1715)