Carel van Mander. Uitleggingh op den Metamorphosis

Pub. Ovidij Nasonis. Alles streckende tot voorderingh des vromen en eerlijcken borgerlijcken wandels (...). Dordrecht, Dirck Dircksz, 1643. (20),136,(4) p. Engr. printer's device on title-p., ornamented initials. Contemp. limp vellum binding w. manuscript title on spine.

Manuscript date on upper pastedown and owner's entry on title-p. Joints loosening, a few p. loose, minor foxing and (water)staining. Rare Dordrecht ed. of the commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses by the painter and poet Mander (1548-1606), 1st publ. w. his famous "Schilder-boeck" (1604).