Ouid's Metamorphosis
By: Englished by G.S.
Contributors: Sandys, George, 1578-1644, translator; Young, Robert, -1643, printer; Grismond, John, bookseller
Publisher: Printed by Robert Young, are to be sold by I. Grismond
Published: 1628
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Mythology; Metamorphosis; Latin Fables; Classical Mythology; Translations into English; Poetry
Other titles: Ovid's Metamorphosis; Metamorphosis
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Translator's dedication signed: George Sandys.

"The minde of the frontispeece, and argument of this worke ... ": facing title page.

Includes index.

"The life of Ovid": leaves A3r-A6r.

"Ovid defended": leaves A8r-A12r.

Signatures: A℗£℗ø(A1+chi1) B-V℗£℗ø.

Title page within engraved ornamental border.

Errors in signing: leaf L2 missigned K2; leaf L4 missigned K4; leaf Q5 missigned P5.

English short title catalogue, entry S113848

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 18965

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in late 19th-century tan buckram. A maroon leather label is present on the spine. The bookplate of the BPL Bates Fund is present on the front pastedown and the perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page. Leaf chi1 ("The minde of the frontispeece") is wanting, as are H6 and V3-V12.