The Metamorphoses of Ovid : An English Version
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954.
Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Item #17024
Light wear; Dust Jacket spine sunned, top edge creasing and small chips. Solid hardcover. ; First Edition, First Printing with 1954 date on both title and copyright pages, and two 1954 California volumes on rear of dust jacket. Wonderful Picasso etchings highlight the first edition of the Watts verse translation with its poetic fluency and readability, albeit without strict fidelity to the Latin original. The ten Picasso etchings were first published in a 1931 Skira limited edition. ; Etching; xvi, 397 pages.
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