• The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
  • The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
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The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b

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Title: The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas, Litt.D. and published b
Author: translated by George Turberville Ovid
Publisher: Cresset Press Limited, 11 Fitzroy Square, London
Published: 1928
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 349
Catalogs: Poetry, Mythology, Ancient History
Description: Number 150 of a 375-copy hand-numbered limited edition. Ten illustrations by Hester Sainsbury. Original tan cloth binding with buckram spine and gilt lettering, very faded. Some brown spotting to boards and spine, dark scuff marks on rear board. Spine has frayed lightly at edges. Deckled page-edges, with some tanning. Light foxing to flyleaf and pastedowns. Special mold-made paper for this edition. Contains an unsigned bookplate depicting a ship. Without marking other than a pencil note concerning the original price on the flyleaf. This is a collection including the Heroides (The Heroines), or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines), and the Double Heroides. The Heroides is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them. A further set of six poems, widely known as the Double Heroides and numbered 16 to 21 in modern editions, follows these individual letters and presents three separate exchanges of paired epistles: one each from a heroic lover to his absent beloved and from the heroine in return. Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE-17/18 CE), 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. Hardcover, very good condition. Quarto, 349 pages.