Added illustrated engraved title page in v. 1, with title: Ovid's Metamorphoses / translated by the m[ost] eminent hands.

On title page of v. 1, translators' names are printed in two columns, with an accolade to right of first column and to left of second column.

Title page of v. 2 reads: Ovid's Metamorphoses, in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculptures. Volume the second. The third edition.

Translated by Joseph Addison, A.S. Catcott, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, Samuel Garth, John Gay, Stephen Harvey, Arthur Maynwaring, John Ozell, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Temple Stanyan, William Stonestreet, Nahum Tate, Edward Vernon and Leonard Welsted.

Original edition published: London : Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand, MDCCXVII [1717].

Signatures: v. 1. A-N¹²; v. 2. A⁶ B-Q¹².

Contains 18 full-page engravings with etching, reduced unsigned copies of those in the original 1717 folio edition; here included in paging and signing. They comprise added engraved title page; portrait of the dedicatee, the Princess of Wales (original engraved by George Vertue after Godfrey Kneller); full-page illustration to each of the 15 books; and an additional illustration (Vertumnus and Pomona) to Book 14 (originals engraved by Louis Du Guernier (3), Michael van der Gucht (2), Elisha Kirkall (6), R. Smith (2) and Matthys Pool (1), with 2 unsigned). Each of the latter is dedicated to a noblewoman or other woman of society, with her coat of arms in the lower margin, respectively: Dutchess of Kingston; Dutchess of Roxburghe; Dutchess of Newcastle; Countess of Hartford; Countess of Warwick; Princess Anne; Lady Cowper; Dutchess of Rutland; Countess of Lincoln; Viscountess Scudamore; Viscountess Townshend; Mrs. Walpole (wife of Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford); Mrs. Margaret Pelham (daughter of Baron Pelham of Laughton); Countess of Burlington; Lady Juliana Boyle; Dutchess of St. Albans.

Woodcut head- and tailpieces and ornamental initials.

Rare Book copy: Volume 2 only. Paired with volume 1 of The fifth edition.--London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1751.

English Short Title Catalog, T99262

Case, A.E. Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750, entry 298(c)

Also available online via Eighteenth Century Collections Online (v. 1, British Library copy) and Google Books (v. 2).

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.