The New Metamorphosis; GILDON (Charles).

Or, the Pleasant Transformation: Being The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius of Medaura. Alter'd and Improv'd in the Modern Times and Manners; exposing the Secret Follies and Vices of Maids, Wives, and Widows, Nuns, Fryars, Jesuits: Statesmen, Courtiers, &c. Written in Italian by Carlo Monte Socio, Fellow of the Academy of the Humoristi in Rome, and Translated from the Vatican Manuscript.

Engraved frontispiece and six plates.

First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. [199 x 120 x 68 mm]. [11]ff, 380pp; [16]ff, 325, [17] pp. Bound in contemporary speckled calf, the spines divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label and numbered in the third, the others with centre and corners, the edges of the boards tooled with a blind roll, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Rubbed with small patch of leather missing from lower cover of vol.1, loss to rear free endleaf in vol.1)).
London: printed for S. Brisco, and Sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1708.

Some sections are lightly and evenly browned. A very good copy in classic "country house" condition. ESTC records 14 copies in 11 United States libraries but only four in the British Isles, at the British Library, Cambridge, National Trust and Trinity College. There are no other copies currently being offered for sale online.

Carlo Monte Socio is a pseudonym and this is in fact an original work by Charles Gildon.

Stock no. ebc8088