Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English
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Overview:
- Title: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English
- Author: Ovid
- Year: 1732
- Publisher: Wetsteins and Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Notes:
- Two volumes. Each volume is printed in two columns, left column in Latin; right in English. Running header for the Latin column is "P. Ovidii Metamor-"; the running header for the English column is "P. Ovid's Metamor-".
- Long title adds to the title above: "Tr. by the most eminent hands. With historical explications of the fables written in French by the Abbot Banier ... tr. into English. Adorned with sculptures by B. Picart."
- Edited by the Abbot Banier. English translations by John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Sir Samuel Garth.
- Engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, 124 engraved illustrations.
- Data from Bloomsbury Auctions and from WorldCat.