OVID. The Metamorphoses of Ovid. - Lot 21

OVID. The Metamorphoses of Ovid. That is, *Transformationum*, 15 books (...). The entire work has been revised with great care and, for the first time, re-edited by Joanne Raenerius. Lugdunum, published by Theobald Ancelin, 1608. Large 16mo, green shagreen, ribbed spine decorated with a gilt fleur-de-lis, gilt fillets framing the covers, gilt lace along the inner edge, gilt head (19th-century binding). Spine faded. A rare Lyon edition by Ancelin, unknown to most bibliographies. This copy is enhanced with a frontispiece title page taken from the Lyon edition by Carteron (1668), engraved by Auroux, and 173 small vignettes that have been reattached, taken from the edition published in Paris in 1583 by Jérôme de Marnef. From the library of Emmanuel Phelippes-Beaulieux (1829–1874), a bibliophile and lawyer from Nantes, with a handwritten note at the top of the endpapers (4 pages on bluish paper).