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English Literature42
Brotherton Collection39

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fables3
english poetry2
metamorphosis2
mythology, classical1
epic poetry, latin1

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Publius Ovidus Naso42
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)42
Dryden, John (1631-1700)17
Dryden, John10
Ovid10
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400)7
Homer6
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)6
Chaucer, Geoffrey5
Boccaccio, Giovanni4

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Fables antient and modern : translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with original poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Ovid; Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Homer

1745

Page 338 incorrectly numbered 388. Title in red and black. Contents: Preface.--Palamon and Arcite: or, The knight's tale [from Chaucer]--To my honour'd kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton.--Melage...

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Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Ovid; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Homer

1700

First edition. Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted; the page following p. 646 is numbered 565. Half-title: Mr Dryden's fables. Contents on final two pages. p. 567-646 are not mentioned in the ...

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Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books

Ovid; Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1717

Published and with preface by Sir Samuel Garth; with parts by and from Dryden.

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Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Ovid; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Homer

1700

First edition. Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted; the page following p. 646 is numbered 565. Half-title: Mr Dryden's fables. Contents on final two pages. p. 567-646 are not mentioned in the ...

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Ovid's Art of love, in three books, together with his Remedy of love

Ovid; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Maynwaring, Arthur (1668-1712); Hopkins, Charles (1664?-1700?)

1725

Signatures: A-N12,O⁶. Omits the "Amours". Title reads as in edition of 1709, with a few differences of punctuation. "The history of love" by Charles Hopkins has a special title page. B3 signed...

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Ovid's Epistles : with his Amours

Ovid

1729

"Ovid's Amours in three books", p. [219]-348 has separate title page.

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Ovid's epistles : with his amours

Ovid; Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1736

Includes: 'The three epistles of Aulus [i.e. Angelus] Sabinus: in answer to as many of Ovid. Made English by Mr. Salusbury' on p. [201] - 218, with its own title-page. The "Preface to Ovid's Epistle...

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Ovid's art of love, in three books. Together with his Amours, and Remedy of love. Translated into English verse by several eminent hands. To which are added, The court of love, a tale from Chaucer. And the history of love. Adorn'd with cutts

Ovid; Hopkins, Charles (1664?-1700?)

1719

Booklist of J. Tonson ([5] p.) at end. The translators are identified in the text as John Dryden, Nahum Tate and William Congreve. "The history of love" and the "Amours" have special title pages. ...

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Ovid's Tristia : containing five books of mournful elegies. Which he sweetly composed in the midst of his adversity, while he liv'd in Tomos a city of Pontus. Where he died after seven years banishment from Rome

Ovid; Saltonstall, Wye (fl. 1630-1640)

[1681]

The frontispiece is in the form of an engraved additional title (on recto) with its description in verse on verso. Signatures: A⁴ B-H8.

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All Ovids Elegies : 3. bookes

Ovid; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Davies, Sir John (1569-1626); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)

[ca. 1630]

Elegy 15 in Book I is given in two versions, the 2d entitled "the same by B.I." and is supposed to be Ben Jonson's earliest published work. Signatures: A-F8. C. M. is Christopher Marlowe and J. D....

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Ovid's Metamorphoses : in fifteen books (v.1)

Ovid; Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1720

Title page of v. 2 varies slightly: translators not listed. Added engraved t.p. in v. 1.

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