Accession number:
PML 46038
Published:
In Venetia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratel., 1555.
Credit:
Gift of the Fellows, 1964.
Description:
[14], 310 p. [1] leaf : ill., map ; 22 cm
Notes:
Third ed.
A translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in ottava rima.
Title within ornamental border containing printer's device; printer's device enclosing colophon on recto of last leaf.
Woodcut initials.
Binding:
16th century Italian (Rome) brown morocco, gold tooled with foliate ornaments and central cartouche (perhaps previously with painted armorial?), for Ginevra Delphina with initials "S. G. R. D." and "S. C. V. V." (front and rear boards) and on spine: "Don. Ginevra. Del Phina. Roma." Attributed to Niccolò Franzese by Anthony Hobson; Nixon attributed to Vatican Binder. Gilt and gauffered edges. 4 ribbon ties, missing.
Variant Title:
Trasformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce
Provenance:
Ginevra Delphina of Rome, binding; Charles Fairfax Murray, booklabel (front pastedown).
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