La Metamorphose d'Ouide
Subtitle: contenant l'Olympe des histoires poëtiques : traduits de latin en françois
Contributors: Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590; Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561
Edition: Nouuellement reueu & corrigé, et mis en meilleur françois que les precedentes impressions.
Publisher: Chez Theodore Reinsart ...
Published: 1608
Place of publication: A Rouen
Language: fre
Number of pages: 746
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Mythology; Metamorphosis; Poetry
Other titles: Metamorphose d'Ovide :
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: In prose.

La Metamorphose is followed by "Description du Chaos, par G. de Saluste, seigneur du Bartas" (p. [747]-[749]), in verse.

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."

Printer's device on t.p. (Fortuna & Invidia). A few head-pieces and initials.

Binding: 19th-century marbled paper, backed in green calfskin. Spine tooled in gilt & blind. Page edges marbled.

Former owner's pencilled notes in French on front free endpaper verso, addressed to Mon. Witmer. The owner bought it on 22 June 1878 for 6 f. from Hénault, who had paid 5 for it himself.