OVIDIUS NASO, Publius

Metamorphoseon libri quindecim

      Venetiis Alde 1502 mense octobri 8°, [267] ff, printer's mark on title and on recto side of the last page. Old handwritten owner's mark on the title, old handwritten Latin annotations in the margins. Old ink drawing of the printer's mark at the verso side of the last leaf. Back in mottled vellum, gilt edges, paper boards Adams O469 - Brunet IV 269 - Dibdin II, 263 - Ebert 15347 - Graesse V, 68 Aldus published in 1502-1503 also Epistolae, Fastorum libri VI De Tristibus libri V De Ponto libri V. 'These are beautiful, rare and valuable editions of Ovid which were printed in the office of Aldus. The edition of 1502 seems to have been compiled chiefly by Aldus himself. The text is pure, and the work has been highly praised' (Dibdin) 1500