Description: Publii Ovidii Nasonis Operum. Amstelodami. Typis Ludovici Elzevirii, Sumptibus Societis, 1652. I: 252 p; II: 252 p; III: 335 p. Complete set in 3 volumes. Uniform binding measuring 4.5 x 2.5", 32mo. In fair condition. Front boards of Vols. I & III are attached via one piece of cording only (very fragile); rear hinges cracked but boards remain attached. Vol. II's hinges are rubbed, but intact. Heads of spines lacking (headbands remains only on Vol. II); tails rubbed. Gilt lettering and ruling on spines normally dulled, mostly legible. Old-hand ownership marginalia found on Vol. I's title page, dated 1727. Normal toning throughout text-blocks, mostly at edges of leaves. Text-blocks' bindings remain intact, boards may need re-attached. Please see photos. Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars. Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology today. Elzevir is the name of a family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The duodecimo series of "Elzevirs" became very famous and very desirable among bibliophiles (like ourselves), who sought to obtain the tallest and freshest copies of these books. Although it appears the family was involved with the book trade as early as the 16th century, it is only known for its work in some detail beginning with Lodewijk Elzevir. The fame of the Elzevir editions rests chiefly on the works issued by the firm of Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevir. Their Greek and Hebrew impressions are considered inferior to those of the Aldines and the Estiennes, but their small editions in 12mo, 16mo, and 24mo, for their elegance of design, neatness, clearness, regularity of type, and beauty of paper, cannot be surpassed. RAREE1652CKLA - 03/18 FORN-SHELF-0465-BB-2411-HKREV269
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: Latin
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Elzevir
Topic: Classics
Subject: Ancient Rome
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