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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. Metamorphoses [in Latin, edited with commentary by Thomas Farnaby.]  ‘Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu’ [but probably Paris,]  1668.
12mo (144 × 80 mm.), pp. 380, [4], additional engraved title. Some very light underlinings to text in early reddish pencil, generally indistinct. Contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine. Minor expert repair to extremities of spine and corners. A good copy.
An attractive ‘faux Elzevir’ edition, with the notes by the English grammarian Thomas Farnaby (which first appeared in the London edition of 1637).
Willems 2142; Rahir 3330 (“Faux Elzeviers”, printed by Thiboust, Paris.)
£200.00    (equal to approx. US$316.34* or €247.89* for 19 May 2012)

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