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The three first bookes of Ovid de tristibus

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D, Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604 · 1580 · London : Imprinted by T. Marsh · 1 picture

A 1580 London edition of Ovid's Tristia, translated into English by Thomas Churchyard and printed by Thomas Marsh for the Elizabethan reading public. Its title page is framed by a woodcut border of two caryatid-like female figures flanking a central panel of set type, with a small monogram emblem at the base, a design a typographer could borrow for a classical title page.

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