Shakespeare's  Ovid, Beng Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
ed. W  H  D Rouse
The Centaur Classic
London: Centaur Press 1961
Southern Illinois Up 1961
 
750 copies by each publisher.
 
LONG out of print.
 
The only way is to go to rare book dealers but especially book finders, and
then keep bugging them and then
W A I T
perhaps for years.  It took me about six years to get mine.
 
good hunting
 
Peter
 
t 01:48 PM 12/4/98 +0900, you wrote:
>Could some one please tell me where I might purchase a copy of what ep
>called "possibly the most beautiful book in our language"? I mean
>Golding's translation of Ovid. I have tried various net sites
>(Amazon.com, abebooks.com, plus a rare book dealer) to no avail.
>
>For your information, the original title of the book is P. OVIDIUS NASO:
>THE XV BOOKES ENTYTULED METAMORPHSIS.  It was most recently published in
>1965 by
>Macmillan, ed. John Frederick Nims, and by the Univ. of Souther Illinois
>in a volume called SHAKESPEARE'S OVID.
>
>Thank you.
>
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