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Translation of Ars Amatoria

"The eleventh, in this Twenty-sixth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... fifteen etchings to serve as half-titles to the fifteen books ... The type for the text is the twelve-point of Centaur, and the marginalia are set in…

Facsim. of the 1931 ed., trans. and ed. by Georges Lafaye and published by Les Presses de Léon Pichon, Paris.

4th ed.

Printer's mark on title page; marginal notes in Latin and Greek

Gift of J. Max Patrick

On cover: Ovidii Opera

In prose. Translated from the same French moralized version that Colard Mansion printed at Bruges in 1484. Cf. Ovyde, hys booke of Methamorphose, books x-xv, 1924, p. xxiii.

"The seventh, in this Twenty-eighth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... twenty-five color illustrations ... George Salter ... chose eighteen-point Bell italic for the text ... The paper is Ragston Laid made specially for…