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‎Love Books of Ovid. A Completely Unexpurgated and Newly Translated Edition by Charles D. Young, Together with the Elegie Translated by Christopher Marlowe, Illustrated by Alexander King‎

‎New York / Toronto, Art Studio Books / Alexandre Hamilton Press, 1930. In-8, 245 x 160 mm, 302 pp. Original half-leather dark red binding with corners. Four raised spines on the elaborately decorated back. Colorful endpapers. A private edition of 2,000 copies, printed on beautiful Strathmore Meldon deckle edge laid paper, exclusively for subscribers. Illustrated with 18 colored plates by Alexander King, reproduced in fine lithography using the method of the Danish artist Hugo Knudsen, as well as many vignettes throughout the sections. Illustrations are individually protected by tissue paper. Works by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid, famous for his poetry Metamorphoses, who, having been married three times before the age of 30, seems to have accumulated great knowledge on the topic.‎

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‎Book in very good condition. Clean core printed on excellent paper. Original luxury editorial binding in very good condition, showing only minor signs of wear. 301 pp. 16 x 24 cm.‎