The Art of Love

Ovid's poem on the art of love, composed in Latin around the turn of the first century BCE, is a three-book lesson in seduction set in Rome. Books one and two tell men how to meet women in public places, how to write and give gifts, and how to hold a lover's interest; book three advises women on appearance, play, and the timing of yielding. Stories from myth sit beside races, dinners, and the city's walks. The work is a witty verse manual that treats desire as a technique to be learned, not a narrative of one pair of lovers moving toward marriage or ruin.

Same as above except bound in quarter blue leather with Ann Muir marbled paper boards.