Le Eroidi di P. Ovidio Nasone tradotte in terza rima Italiana da Agomico Fiorentino. Parte prima [all published]

Florence: Magheri, 1829. 16mo (113 mm x 77 mm.). 198 pages. Woodcut title vignette and an ornament of a wreath. Printed on bright mauve wove paper. Publisher’s cartonnage binding of diced red paper over boards, sides with gilt border, flat spine gold-tooled (loss to head of spine and upper joint), marbled endpapers, pink liners and flyleaves, blue silk ribbon marker. Provenance: Edward John Kenney, book-label. ***

A very rare curiosity, this bilingual Latin and Italian edition of Ovid’s letters from unhappy women is printed on richly colored pinkish-mauve paper. This first part, containing Epistolae 1-7, was all that was published. Not in OCLC; ICCU locates one copy, in Turin (with no mention of colored paper).