OVID. 43 B.C.E.-17 A.D.E.

Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English. Amsterdam: Printed for the Weststeins and Smith, 1732.

Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English. Amsterdam: Printed for the Weststeins and Smith, 1732.
2 volumes. Folio (443 x 292 mm). Extra allegorical engraved title in volume I, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, numerous engraved illustrations in text in addition to 6 plates on 3 leaves in volume II. Modern red morocco, ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. Minor browning and fingermarks.

FIRST EDITION THUS, taken from a French edition edited by the Abbott Banier and published in Paris the same year. The illustrations, engraved by Philip à Gunst, Jacob Folkema, and others, after paintings by Bernard Picart and Charles Le Brun, were taken from the simultaneous French edition. Brunet IV:285; Cohen-de Ricci 768.