La Metamorphose d'Ouide :
contenant l'Olympe des histoires poëtiques : traduits de latin en françois.

Description

Main Author

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Related Names

Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561.
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.

Language(s)

French

Published

A Rouen : Chez Theodore Reinsart ..., 1608.

Edition

Nouuellement reueu & corrigé, et mis en meilleur françois que les precedentes impressions.

Subjects

Mythology, Classical > Mythology, Classical / Poetry.
Metamorphosis > Metamorphosis / Mythology > Metamorphosis / Mythology / Poetry.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / France > Woodcuts / France / 17th century.

Note

Printer's device on t.p. (Fortuna & Invidia). A few head-pieces and initials.
Illustrated with 178 woodcuts, copied from those attributed to Bernard Salomon that were used by Jean de Tournes at Lyon. See R. Mortimer, French 16th-cent, 403. One additional cut illustrates "Description du Chaos."
La Metamorphose is followed by "Description du Chaos, par G. de Saluste, seigneur du Bartas" (p. [747]-[749]), in verse.
In prose.

Physical Description

746, [22] p. (the last blank) : ill. ; 13 cm. (16mo)

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