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The Love Books of Ovid,: being the amores, ars…
Ovid (43 BCE – 17 or 18 CE)
New York: Privately printed for Rarity Press, 1930
First edition
PA6522 A3 L6 1930

Illustrated with twelve lithographs by Jean de Bosschere (1878-1953), a Belgian writer and painter who worked between the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. De Bosschere’s writing and art were influenced by a heady group of friends including novelists Aubrey Beardsley, Aldous Huxley, and D. H. Lawrence; Imagist poets Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Richard Aldington; and others such as Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Antonin Artaud.

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