Ovid's epistles: with his amours. Translated into English Verse, By the Most Eminent Hands
by OVID
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1736. [24], 348pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 10 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. Rubbed, marked, and bumped, upper joint starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Later inked ownership inscription to FEP, loss to FFEP. Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - 17/18 AD), Roman Poet. The Heroides, or Epistulae Heroidum, are a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets, and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology addressing their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them. A further set of six poems follows these individual letters and present three separate exchanges of paired epistles: one each from a heroic lover to his absent beloved and from the heroine in return. ESTC T73175.. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ28638
- Title
- Ovid's epistles: with his amours. Translated into English Verse, By the Most Eminent Hands
- Author
- OVID
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Printed for J. and R. Tonson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1736
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- Poetry, Verse
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 12mo
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