Follows the ed. of 1570. Text first published Frankfurt, 1563; see Renouard, 265. Spreng's dedication to Rudolf and Ernest, Archdukes of Austria and sons of Emperor Maximilian II, retains the date of 22 Feb. 1563. Each metamorphosis occupies one leaf, with woodcut ill. and prose argument on recto and verse "enarratio" and "allegoria" (moral) on the verso

Jérôme de Marnef's device on t.p. With the exception of the ill. on leaves 46 and 47, the woodcuts are the same as those of the 1570 ed., which probably repeated those of the Métamorphose figurée of l566 (no surviving copies). These in turn were copied from the ill. after Bernard Saloman's designs for Jean de Tournes' Lyons ed. of 1557; see Renouard 230, 265, 419. Initials, head and tail pieces

Signatures: A-2A⁸

Includes index

Renouard, P. Imprimeurs

The three final blanks are wanting in Library's copy

Binding: old limp vellum. Author and title written at head of spine over older inscription

Inscription in pencil on front free endpaper verso: 8-9-56 / Deschamp / Cour du Commerce

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