The Heroycall Epistles of the learned poet Publius Ouidius Naso, translated into English verse by George Turberuile with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury. Edted with an introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas LITT.D. And published by the Cresset Press Limited.

1928
Privately printed.
No 137 out of 350 copies.
Library stamp.

The Cresset Press was a publishing company in London, England, active as an independent press from 1927 for 40 years, and initially specializing in "expensively illustrated limited editions of classical works, like Milton's Paradise Lost" going on to produce well-designed trade editions of literary and political works. Among the leading illustrators commissioned by Cresset were Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes — The Pilgrim's Progress (1928), The Apocrypha (1929), and D. H. Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1930). Cresset subsequently became part of the Barrie Group of publishers, and later an imprint of the Ebury Press within the Random House Group.

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.

The Heroycall Epistles refers to a collection of poems by Ovid, specifically his Heroides (or Heroidas), which are fictional letters written by mythological Greek heroines to their absent heroes. These epistles are known for their emotional depth and exploration of female perspectives in classical mythology.

R2,000