Ovyde, hys booke of Methamorphose : Books X-XV /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Uniform title:Metamorphoses. Liber 10-15. English
Imprint:Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1924. (Stratford-upon-Avon : Shakespeare Head Press)
Description:xl, 189 p. ; 31 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's c.1 is no.82 of a limited edition of 375 copies. Illustrated plate on cover: "Ovyde, hys booke of Methamorphose translated by William Caxton MCCCLXXX." Label on spine: "Ovyde, hys booke of Methamorphose, William Caxton, 1480, Shakespeare Head Press." Editors listed on t.p. verso.
University of Chicago Library's c.2 is no.164 of a limited edition of 375 copies. Above imprint on t.p.: "Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Company" in red ink. Letter from Houghton Mifflin dated 1927 advertising the sale of this edition laid-in. Bookplate of Tony Rubovits. Label on spine: "Ovyde, hys booke of Methamorphose translated by William Caxton." T.p. verso blank.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3738511
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Other authors / contributors:Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Gaselee, S. (Stephen), 1882-1943.
Brett-Smith, H. F. B. (Herbert Francis Brett)
Pepys Library. Mss. no.2124.
Notes:Translation in prose made from a French version. Caxton's prologue and translation of books I-IX are missing in the Pepysian manuscript.
"Three hundred and seventy-five copies of Ovyde, hys booke of Methamorphose have been printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper." --Limitations page.
"Thus endeth Ovyde hys booke of Methamorphose translated & fynysshed by me William Caxton at Westmestre the xxij. day of Appryll. the yere of our lord m1.iiijc.iiijxx. And the xx yere of the Regne of kynge Edward the fourth." --p.189.

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Call Number: f PR1847.O8 1924
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Call Number: f PR1847.O8 1924
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