OVIDS FESTIVALLS or ROMANE CALENDAR, BOUND WITH DE PONTO, translated into English verse equinumerally. by OVIDIUS NASO, Publius.: - 1640

Cambridge, printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the University of Cambridge: And are to be sold by M[ichael]. S[parke]. junior, in the little Old-Baily in London, 1640.. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION TRANSLATED BY JOHN GOWER, Master of Arts and sometimes of Jesus Colledge in Cambridge 1640. Small 8vo, approximately 135 x 85 mm, 5¼ x 3½ inches, LACKS final imprimatur leaf, collation: Par6, A-L8, M2 (lacks M2 final imprimatur leaf). Title page in red and black with printer's ornament, the first blank leaf which is in the collation and is often missing, is completely blank with an early ink signature and old ink date of 1678 and another of 1733, and has three vertical chain lines, the same as the title page, but no fleuron, pages: [42], 1-146, (page 146 has 2 lines of latin underneath Finis), bound in full later vellum, gilt lettered maroon label to spine and gilt lettered label with date at foot of spine, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Vellum slightly darkened, pale stain to title page several corners lightly stained, occasional small ink spot, slight shaving to top edges, with loss of running title to last page, 1 lower margin has loss to 1 catch word, 4 line neat old ink manuscript note in early hand to lower blank margin of 1 prelim, last page has a little old ink jotting otherwise a very good copy. See: Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature 1475-1700, Volume Two, page 782, No. 782 and for De Ponto No. 780; Carew Hazlitt, Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, page 430, No. 14; Grolier Club, Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Wither to Prior, Volume 2, page 52, No. 405; ESTC S113673. THE FESTIVALLS IS BOUND WITH A DEFECTIVE COPY OF OVID'S "DE PONTO", WITH WOODCUT, A reissue of the 1639 edition, with motto on title page replaced by "The second edition" and date changed from 1639 to 1640. SECOND EDITION 1640, unpaginated, translated by Wye Saltonstall. 120 pages including title page, lacks all of signature F, 8 pages have pale soiling, text legible, the rest are clean, one woodcut on death on verso title page, A2-E8; G-K2, K1 has letter C instead of K, probably a cancel. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.