T. Corneille & Ovide - Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide - 1697

Rarest illustrated edition of this third volume which continues the exploration of the vast mythological poem composed by the Latin poet Ovid by gathering a succession of narratives in which physical transformations become the symbol of human passions, of divine power, of celestial punishments, and of the upheavals of destiny -

Metamorphoses by Ovid (1st century) deliver in an epic of fifteen cantos a learned compendium on Greco-Roman mythology that has no equivalent, except Hesiod's Theogony (8th c. B.C.) -

Ovid's work forms a continuous poem of 12,000 verses and more than 230 fables in which the author reclaims the entire body of myths transmitted orally or in the works of Greek and Latin authors -

It offers a history of the origins of the universe and draws up the genealogy of the gods, of heroes (the demigods in the etymological sense) and of men, from primitive chaos to the principate of Augustus, which marks the passage from mythical time to historical time -

T. Corneille & Ovide - Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide - 1697 - Tome III - Guillaume de Luines -
357pp.

Good condition of the binding, work in its full brown basane leather of the period, signs of use, a few minor defects on the cover, damaged headbands, split hinges, worn corners, red edges, spine with ornamented nerves, gilded titling and volume numbering -

Good interior condition, browning, handsome title-page vignette, pretty headbands, tailpieces, charming drop caps, beautiful initial, new edition translated from Latin by Corneille, illustrated with vignettes at the start of each fable, endpapers in acceptable condition, good copy -

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