Ovidius Naso, Publius

Heroicall Epistles. Englished by W[ye]. S[altonstall]. London: Printed by J. D[awson]. and are to be sold by Michael Sparke Junior in Greene Arbour, 1639. 8vo (5 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.; 142 x 89 mm). Headpiece of printer's ornaments, decorative woodcut initials, twenty-two engraved plates pasted in to spaces left by the printer at the head of each epistle (the last two omitted); title edge stained from binding, upper left, largely blank, corner of the fifth plate torn before being pasted in, clean tear in lower margin leaf B5 entering text. — [De arte amandi. Translated by Thomas Heywood]. [London: ca. 1625]. Lacking engraved title as usual, but with last two blank leaves. — Remedy of Love. Directing Lovers how they may by Reason suppress the passion of love [translated by J. Carpenter, in verse]. London: Printed [by N. & J. Okes] for Francis Smith, and are to be sold in his shop neare Holborne Conduit, at the signe of the Swane, 1636. — [George Chapman]. Ovids Banquet of Sence. With A Coronet for his Mistresse Philosophy; and His Amorous Zodiack. London: Printed by B. A[lsop]. and T. F[awcet]. and are to be sold by R. Horseman, dwelling in the Strand neere unto Yorke House, 1639. — All Ovids Elegies: 3. Bookes by C[histopher]. M[arlowe]. Epigrams by J.D[avies]. At Middlebourgh [i.e., London: ca. 1630]. — Festivalls, Or Romane Calendar, Translated into English verse ... by John Gower. [Cambridge:] Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the University of Cambridge: And are to be sold by M[ichael]. S[parke]. junior, in the little Old-Baily in London, 1640. Title printed in red and black, woodcut device on title. — Tristia. Containinge five Bookes of mournfull Elegies ... translated into English by W[ye]. S[altonstall]. London: Printed [by T. & R. Cotes] for Fra[ncis] Grove, and are to bee sould at his shoppe on Snowe hill neere the Sarazens head, 1637. Engraved title with explanatory frontispiece. — De Ponto. Containing foure books of Elegies ... translated by W[ye]. S[altonstall]. The Second Edition. London: Printed ... by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Junior, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene Arbor, 1640. Allegorical woodcut on title verso. Occasional marginal soiling and staining, a few small edge tears. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep; rebacked with original spine laid down, some mended scuffmarks.

Edward Owen (contemporary signature on last page) — Christie's, 29 September 1982, lot 98. acquisition: Purchased at foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

STC 18946, 18935, 18976, 4986, 18932, 18948, 18980, 18939; ESTC S113690, S113647, S113680, S107713, S113711, S113673, S113816, S113742; Pforzheimer 157 (Chapman), 641 (Marlowe), 782 (Festivalls).

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An astonishing collection of rare English translations of Ovid's main works, responding to extraordinary public interest in the author around the year 1639. Included is Chapman's attempt at a poem in the style of Ovid (first published in 1595), and a rare Marlowe translation of Elegies, the earliest edition of which was burned by the Bishop of London in 1599 (Pforzheimer 641).