Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subtitle: in Latin and English, translated by the most eminent hands. With historical explications of the Fables, written in French by The Abbot Banier ... translated into English. Adorned with Sculptures, by B. Picart, and other able Masters
Contributors: Banier, M. l'abbé (Antoine), 1673-1741; Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733; Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719; Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719; Dryden, John, 1631-1700; Maynwaring, Arthur, 1668-1712; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Congreve, William, 1670-1729; Rowe, John, active 1760; Gay, John, 1685-1732; Eusden, Laurence, 1688-1730; Croxall, Samuel, 1688 or 1689-1752; Welsted, Leonard, 1688-1747; Catcott, A. S. (Alexander Stopford), 1692-1749; Ozell, John, -1743; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715; Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546; Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714; Dubourg, Louis Fabricius, 1693-1775; Wit, Jacob de, 1695-1754; Maes, Godfried, 1649-1700; Gunst, Pieter Stevens van, 1659?-1724?; Wetstein, Jacobus, active 1727-1777, bookseller; Wetstein, Rudolf, active 1701-1736, bookseller; Smith, William, active 1726-1742, bookseller; Carpentier, Horace W., 1824-1918, inscriber; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner
Publisher: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith
Published: 1732
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
Subjects: Greek Mythology; Poetry; Translations into English; Latin poetry; Metamorphosis
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Engraved frontispiece.

With a half-title before frontispiece.

Title pages for v. 1 and 2 in black and red; initials, tail-pieces.

Engravings by: B. Bernaerts, P. Gunst, J. Wandelaar, Martin Bouche, Jan Schenck (Johann Schenk?), G. Gouwen, P. Bouche, Jakob Folkema (Jacob Folkema); after original art by L.F. Dubourg. Jul. Romain (i.e. Giulio Romano), J. de Wit, G. Maas (Godfrey Maes?), P. Testa and S. Le Clerc. Some engravings are unsigned.

Signatures: pi1 [*]² 2*-6*² A-2H⁴, ²pi² ²A-2L⁴ 2M1.

Pages [265]-[270] are 3 leaves of plates, lacking letterpress, intercalated between leaves ²B4 and ²C1.

Latin text with English translations by John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Sir Samuel Garth, Arthur Mainwaring, William Congreve, John Rowe, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Laurence Eusden, Samuel Croxall, A.S. Catcott, Mr. Tate, Mr. Welsted, Mr. Ozell, the author of the preface, Sir Samuel Garth, and also Stephen Harvey, Stonestreet, and Vernon.

Rare Book copy: Imperfect; pages 349-352 wanting.

Rare Book copy: Inscribed to George A. Plimpton by H.W. Carpentier, April 10, 1912.

Rare Book copy: From the library of George A. Plimpton, with his bookplate.

English short title catalogue, T145731

BM v. 117, c.440

Gift; George A. Plimpton

Rare Book copy: Bound in full brown leather; gilt spine with lettering piece.