Longus:Biblio.com
LONGUS:Biblio.com
LES AMOURS PASTORALES DE DAPHNIS ET DE CHLOE. Double Traduction du Grec en François de Mr. Amiot et d'un Anonime mises en paralelle.
1757Best.-Nr. 53169Paris Imprimées pour les curieux 1757. HAND COLOURED EDITION 1757. Small 4to approximately 200 x 150 mm 7¾ x 6 inches title in red and black with engraved vignette engraved frontispiece by Benoit Audran after A. Coypel 29 further engraved plates 28 by Audran after Phillippe Duc d'Orléans 1 unsigned plate after the Comte de Caylus including the plate of Les petits pieds at page162 each within decorative border by S. Focke all engravings HAND COLOURED including initials and 16 head- and tailpieces 20 heightened with gilt parallel text. Pages: viii 1-269 1 bound in 19th century black morocco by Masson-Debonnelle his name on first lower dentelle gilt lettering and decoration to spine covers with central gilt-blocked bird quiver of arrows and torch motif corners with rose device triple fillet border gilt decorated dentelles all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Spine professionally relaid small brown stain to top inner margin of title page most plates have pale foxing to margins in varying degrees pale foxing to blank side of plates occasional foxing to text otherwise a very good copy of a hand coloured copy. The earlier translation is by Jacques Amyot 1513-1593. See Brunet Manuel du Libraire Volume 3 page 1158; Bonham's Auction Lot 41 29th July 2020 who sold a hand coloured edition see Google. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Paris, Imprimées pour les curieux, 1757. hardcover
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