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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius

Epistolae Heroides Ovidii comentantibus Antonio Volsco et Ubertino Cresentinate ... Jodoco Badio Ascensio

Lyon
(Jean David dit La Mouche)
1529

€500 - €650

In-4to, [4] - 136 ff. Title printed in red and black in a beautiful woodcut ornamental frame. With 23 woodcuts in text (each time a composition of 3 small woodcuts narrating the history in short). Printed in gothic script. Woodcut printer's device of Etienne Maillet at the end. Pale dampstaining, heavier in 8 lvs. Ms. annotations at the beginning and at the end. Later half leather binding, blue sprinkled edges

Collection of 15 fictional letters of ancient Heroines to their famous lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them, e.g. Penelope to Odysseus, Dido to Aeneas, Medea to Jason, Ariadne to Theseus. Ref. Graesse V, p. 73. Not in Adams. Jean David alias La Mouche worked as a printer for a very short period from 1527 to 1531

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