Les XV livres de la Metamorphose
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Overview:
- Title: Les XV livres de la Metamorphose
- Author: Ovid
- Year: 1539
- Publisher: Denys Janot
- Pages: 87+100+116
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Les XV livres de la Metamorphose
- Notes:
- Published in 3 volumes.
- 258 woodcut illustrations printed from 135 blocks. "There were at least eight different artisans involved in the cutting of these blocks. Some subjects are based on the Vergil illustrations employed in Jean Réal's 1538 edition of this translation. Others are from miscellaneous sets. This Ovid is an excellent example of the volumes which Janot illustrated from a general stock of woodcuts, chiefly mythological and romance..." (Mortimer, Harvard French, p. 399)
- Data from Christie's Auction House (sale 10456) and from WorldCat.