[OVID]. MAY, J. Lewis (translator)

The Love Books of Ovid. Being the 'Amores', 'Ars Amatoria', 'Remedia Amoris' and 'Medicamina Faciei Femineae' of Publius Ovidius Naso ... Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1925.

Royal octavo, xxxiv, 216 pages plus 25 colour plates (by de Bosschere).

Gilt-pictorial blue cloth, leading and bottom edges uncut; covers a little rubbed and bumped, with a small sunned spot on the spine; flyleaves a little offset; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little torn, creased and chipped, with minor loss to the head of the spine and one corner.

With the bookplate of South Australian social and political activist Agnes K. Goode (1872-1947), the 'first woman in South Australia to win a contest for election to a municipal council' ('The Advertiser', 21 February 1947).

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