75/2751 [Classical antiquity and neolatinism]. Ovidius Naso, P. La Metamorphose d'Ovide figuree. Lyon, J. de Tournes, 1583, (3rd ed.), (92) lvs., 178 woodcut ills., each page (incl. title-p.) within (different) rich figurative/ arabesque woodcut border, 20th cent. richly gilt calf in renaissance style w. central mor. title inlay, gilt boardedges, gilt spine, gilt inside fillets w. marbled endpapers, a.e.g., sm. 8vo.

- Fine copy. Occas. sl. yellowed/ soiled and w. a few foxed spots; old owner's entry in brown pen on title-page lower blank margin; extensive early 20th cent.(?) ms. annot. in pen and ink on prelim. leaf.

= Mortimer 403; Fairfax Murray 420 (both the 1st ed. of 1557). "The de Tournes Ovids, combining the Salomon illustrations and borders with French, Italian, or Flemish texts, are among the most attractive volumes produced at Lyons" (Mortimer). "Every page with delicately executed woodcuts attributed to Le Petit Bernard (178 in all), and with borders of beautiful design, consisting of interlacing arabesques, some white on black, figures of satyrs, tritons, &c., and including three extraordinary ones (repeated at intervals) composed of Rabelaisian monsters and other grotesque creatures" (Murray). Endpapers made from nice col. woodcut leaf w. floral motif. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.