Cleyn (Francis).- Ovidius Naso (Publius) [Metamorphosis], text in Latin, engraved pictorial title and 16 plates by Salamon Savery after Francis Cleyn, damp-staining, the areas of staining larger to text ff. than plates, modern bookplate, contemporary limp vellum, 4to, [?c.1640].
⁂ The engraved plates after Francis Cleyn here present originally appeared in the second edition of George Sandy's translation of the Metamorphosis, published by John Lichfield in Oxford, 1632. They have been here bound to accompany a, presumably near contemporary (possibly continental), Latin edition of the same work. German-born artist Francis Cleyn (c.1582-1658) lived and worked in England, a noted early English print maker.
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