The metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso
By: translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition, with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman
Contributors: Yunge-Bateman, J. (John), illustrator; Dryden, John, 1631-1700, translator; Golden Cockerel Press; Chiswick Press; Mansell Bookbinders Limited; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Fine books; Specimens; Latin Fables; Classical Mythology; Poetry; Metamorphosis; Mythology
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: "The Golden Cockerel edition of The Metamorphoses has been designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, and printed at The Chiswick Press in Caslon's Old Face type on Millbourn mould-made paper. The bindings are by Mansell. The edition is limited to 200 numbered copies, of which Nos. 1-75 are specially bound and accompanied by an extra set of the 11 drawings, together with 3 additional pictures not printed in the book."

Translated by Dryden, Addison, and others.

Rare Book copy: No. 29, specially bound and with an extra set of the 11 drawings, plus 3 not printed in the book.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full beige goatskin with red oval goatskin onlays on upper and lower covers, gilt with pictorial designs; spine with gilt lettering and four raised bands with blind rules above and below the bands; top edge gilt.