A Translation of the First Book of Ovid's Tristia...with the Original Text. By Francis Arden

New York C. S. Van Winkle, 1821. Tall 8vo., original bluish gray boards with white paper spine, worn with two small pieces wanting; original paper spine label; quite a tall, sound, uncut copy. With bookbinder's ticket of T. Garson, at the same Greenwich Street address as the printer.Arden, a counselor at law and a great admirer of John Jay ("...a firm patriot, an enlightened statesman, an upright man, and sincere Christian."), says in his Preface that he has attempted to fill "a chasm" caused by the neglect British writers have had for Ovid's Tristia and Fasti. He provides both the Latin original and his own translation in what turns out to be a delightful, well preserved example of New York printing from the early part of the last century.Shaw & Shoemaker 6358 EARLY AMER. EDN. IN BOARDS—DEDICATED TO JOHN JAY