Les metamorphoses d'Ouide
Subtitle: traduites en prose Françoise, et de nouueau soigneusement reueuës, corrigees en infinis endroits, et enrichies de figures à chacune fable : avec XV discours contenans l'explication morale et historique : de plus outre le Iugement de Paris, augmentees de la Metamorphose des abeilles, traduite de Virgile, de quelques epistres d'Ouide, et autres diuers traitez
Contributors: Renouard, Nicolas, active 17th century; L'Angelier, Abel, active 1572-1609, associated name; Virgil; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner
Publisher: Chez la veufue Langelier au premier pilier de la grande Salle du Palais
Published: 1619
Place of publication: Pour l'autheur a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 466
Other titles: Metamorphoses d'Ovide; Jugement de Paris; Iugement de Paris.; XV discours sur les Metamorphoses d'Ouide, contenans l'explication morale des fables.
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Dedicatory epistle signed "N. Renouard."

Date of publication follows title on title-page.

"Le iugement de Paris" has separate title-page and pagination (register continuous), with imprint "Pour l'autheur, a Paris, chez la vefue Abel l'Angelier, au premier pillier de la grand' Salle du Palais, MDCXVIII [1618]; "XV discours sur les Metamorphoses d'Ouide, contenans l'explication morale des fables" has separate title-page, pagination, and register, with imprint identical to previous part.

Signatures: *⁴ 2*⁶ A-3X⁴ a-u⁴ x⁶ y-z⁴ 2d⁴( -2d4).

Leaf 3S4 is blank; leaf 3C3 mis-signed 3B3.

Engraved portrait of author on *2v; engraved illustrations throughout.

Engraved title-page; head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginal notes; title vignettes on additional title-pages.

Includes indexes.

Rare Book copy: Engraved title page has been mended.

Rare Book copy: Leaf 3O3 is bound before leaf 3O2.

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

Gift; George A. Plimpton

Rare Book copy: Bound in full mottled brown leather with marbled endpapers.