Ouids Metamorphosis Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. An essay to the translation of Virgil's Æneis
By: By G.S.
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: By Iohn Lichfield [and William Stansby
Published: 1632
Place of publication: Imprinted at Oxford [and London]
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 549
Other titles: Metamorphoses.; Ovids Metamorphosis.; Æneis. Book 1. English.
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Translator's dedication signed: George Sandys.

Mostly in verse.

The "essay" is a translation of Book 1 of "Æneis".

With an additional title page, engraved. This and some of the plates are signed by Franz Cleyn, artist, and Salomon Savery, engraver.

At foot of letterpress title: Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum hanc Ouidij translationem.

The preliminaries and one setting of quire 3V (with 3-line initials on the errata page) were printed in London by William Stansby. Variant: quire 3V printed at Oxford; errata page has 2-line intials. See "The Library", Dec. 1948, p. 193-212.

STC (2nd ed.) 18966.

Madan, I, p. 163.