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Ovid in Swedish translation

OVID [REENSTIERNA, Jacob].
Nägre fabler af Ovidii Metamorphoses, förswanskade (af Jacob Reenstierna).

With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (<I>c</I>. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials

With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (<I>c</I>. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials

With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (<I>c</I>. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials

With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (<I>c</I>. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials

With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (<I>c</I>. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials



Stockholm, Julius G. Matthiae, 1708. 8vo. (printed on half sheets) Contemporary half calf, giolt spine with title lettered in gold. With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (c. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials (8), (69) lvs.; collation: )(-2)(4, A-R4, (S)2-1.

Nicely produced and finely illustrated first and only edition of a choice selection of fables from Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated into Swedish by Jacob Reenstierna. The book is dedicated to Charlotte Piper and signed by the translator/editor Reenstierna, dated Norkiöping, 10 December 1708 (ff. (1)v-(6)v), folowed by a preface by G. Peringer Lilieblad (ff. (7)r-(8)v). The text of the swedish translation of a number of Ovidian fables is on ff. (1)r-(68)r; (68)v blank); on the recto of the last fol. are the 'Tryckfeel' (errata).

Good copy.
Svenskt biklexicon (1830-65), vol. M-O, p. 184.

Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Literary History, Classics  Literature  Philology  Sweden 

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