Ouids Tristia containinge fiue bookes of mournfull elegies which hee sweetly composed in the midst of his aduersitie, while hee liu'd in Tomos a cittie of Pontus where hee dyed after seauen yeares banishment from Rome. Translated into English by. W.S.
by Ovidius, P.N
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London: printed [by Thomas and Richard Cotes] for Fra: Groue and are to bee sould at his shopp on Snowe hill neere the Sarazens head, 1637.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. No pagination. [130]pp. A6 (A1 + chi1), B8-H8, I2. Title-page engraved and signed: T: Cecill. sculp:. Leaves A2 and A3 are mis-signed A3 and A2 respectively. A1 contains "The explanation of the frontispiece," in verse. Calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. From the library of Ormond G. Smith, of Smith & Street Publications fame, with his bookplate. ESTC S113816; STC (2nd ed.), 18980.
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- Ouids Tristia containinge fiue bookes of mournfull elegies which hee sweetly composed in the midst of his aduersitie, while hee liu'd in Tomos a cittie of Pontus where hee dyed after seauen yeares banishment from Rome. Translated into English by. W.S.
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- Ovidius, P.N
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- London: printed [by Thomas and Richard Cotes] for Fra: Groue and are to bee sould at his shopp on Snowe hill neere the Sarazens
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