the new emotional blackmailer's handbook

Ovid's Metamorphoses ... third edition, ripped-off from Tonson ... very poorly illustrated and printed in Ireland in 1727 ... here are the frontispiece pages with their pictorial dedications to a series of high-ranking ladies ... of Volume One, Books One to Seven ... and of Volume Two, Books Eight to Fifteen ... it seems only properly respectful to include such portraits of the ladies as will bring them to life ... BUT THEN, LATER ... mercy me ! ... I had failed to realize i was looking at the cheap rip-off pirate edition ... the original publisher was Jacob Tonson in London ... his printers and engravers and artists did much finer work, as you will see ...

  VOLUME ONE https://archive.org/details/ovidsmetamorphos01ovid/mode/2up?view=theater this is the crude rip-off version printed in Dublin .....