Ouid's Metamorphosis
Subtitle: Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. An essay to the translation of Virgil's Aeneis
By: By G.S.
Contributors: Sandys, George, 1578-1644; Virgil; Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658; Savery, Salomon, 1594-1665
Publisher: by Iohn Lichfield
Published: 1632
Place of publication: Imprinted at Oxford [and London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
Other titles: Ovid's Metamorphosis; Metamorphosis
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Translator's dedication signed: George Sandys.

Mostly in verse.

The "essay" is a translation of Book 1 of "Aeneis"

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

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

Signatures: pi⁶ [par.]⁴ A-3T⁴ 3V².

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 initials. See "The Library", Dec. 1948, p. 193-212.

STC (2nd ed.), 18966

Madan, I, p. 163

English short title catalogue, S121877