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Ouid's Metamorphosis: Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. An essay to the translation of Virgil's Aeneis
1632, by Iohn Lichfield
in English
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Translator's dedication signed: George Sandys.
Mostly in verse.
The "essay" is a translation of Book 1 of "Aeneis"
With an additional title page, engraved. This and some of the plates are signed by Franz Cleyn, artist, and Salomon Savery, engraver.
Imprimatur at foot of letterpress title: Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum hanc Ouidij translationem.
Signatures: pi⁶ [par.]⁴ A-3T⁴ 3V².
The preliminaries and one setting of quire 3V (with 3-line initials on the errata page) were printed in London by William Stansby. Variant: quire 3V printed at Oxford; errata page has 2-line initials. See "The Library", Dec. 1948, p. 193-212.
STC (2nd ed.), 18966
Madan, I, p. 163
English short title catalogue, S121877
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