1590 Painted BRASS ART Binding OVID Works Poetry Roman Mythology Fastor Tristia
“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses
Ovid was a 1st-century BC Roman poet most-known for his poems on mythology. This 1590 printing of the works of Ovid includes all of his most famous works including ‘Fastor’, ‘Tristia’, ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’, and ‘Consolatio ad Liviam’. These works were some of the most important works of Roman poetry in the 1st-century covering classical mythology and life in Ancient Rome.
This particular issue is notable for having a unique binding, unlike others of its kind. It features a painted, brass illustration of a papal blessing scene.
Item number: #26581
Price: $1250
1590 Painted BRASS ART Binding OVID Works Poetry Roman Mythology Fastor Tristia
“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses
Ovid was a 1st-century BC Roman poet most-known for his poems on mythology. This 1590 printing of the works of Ovid includes all of his most famous works including ‘Fastor’, ‘Tristia’, ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’, and ‘Consolatio ad Liviam’. These works were some of the most important works of Roman poetry in the 1st-century covering classical mythology and life in Ancient Rome.
This particular issue is notable for having a unique binding, unlike others of its kind. It features a painted, brass illustration of a papal blessing scene.
Item number: #26581
Price: $1250
OVID
- Ouidi Nasonis opera, quæ exstant, omnia : primo tomo continentur …
Francofurdi [Frankfurt am Main]: Ex officina typographica Ioannis Wecheli, 1590.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- Fastorum – 158, [2]
- Tristium – [161]-504
- References: USTC 681895
- Language: Latin
- Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
- Includes two functional clasps
- Size: ~5in X 3.5in (13cm x 9cm)
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Categories
Classical Greco-Roman
Literature
Authors
OVID
Printing Date
16th Century
Language
Latin
Binding
Vellum
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete