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LONGUS. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé. Double traduction du Grec en François de Mr. Amiot et d'un Anonime [sic]. Paris: Imprimées pour les Curieux, 1757.
Small 4° (192 x 144mm). Title in red and black, engraved frontispiece by B.Audran after A.Coypel in three versions, one hand-coloured, one in black and one in black without border dated 1718, 29 engraved plates by Audran after Philippe d'Orléans in two states, the first hand-coloured within borders by Fokke, the second without any borders as in the original 1718 edition, one fleuron on the title, 8 vignettes by Eisen and 8 culs-de lampe by Cochin, all engraved by Fokke, the plate of the 'petits pieds' after page 162 is before letters. Text encadrée throughout. (Very light occasional marginal spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf backed in red morocco, gilt, gilt turn-ins, spine gilt in six compartments, one with black morocco lettering-piece, by J. Dahmen, Amsterdam with his label (corners of spine repaired), g.e., marbled endpapers. Provenance: Blatner (booklabel); Robert Hoe (booklabel); Cortland Bishop (booklabel).
A VERY FINE COPY LAVISHLY HAND-COLOURED AND AUGMENTED WITH A SET OF EARLIER PLATES, pulled from the original copperplates of 1718, which had been retouched. The plates with the borders are taken from the Greek and Latin edition of 1754, to which the fine frames by Fokke had already been added. The culs-de-lampe are enlarged and reversed from the 1745 edition. Brunet and Cohen-de Ricci record no similar copy with such double series of plates. According to Brunet, the anonymous new translator is Le Camus. Cohen-de Ricci 653; Brunet III, 1158.
Small 4° (192 x 144mm). Title in red and black, engraved frontispiece by B.Audran after A.Coypel in three versions, one hand-coloured, one in black and one in black without border dated 1718, 29 engraved plates by Audran after Philippe d'Orléans in two states, the first hand-coloured within borders by Fokke, the second without any borders as in the original 1718 edition, one fleuron on the title, 8 vignettes by Eisen and 8 culs-de lampe by Cochin, all engraved by Fokke, the plate of the 'petits pieds' after page 162 is before letters. Text encadrée throughout. (Very light occasional marginal spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf backed in red morocco, gilt, gilt turn-ins, spine gilt in six compartments, one with black morocco lettering-piece, by J. Dahmen, Amsterdam with his label (corners of spine repaired), g.e., marbled endpapers. Provenance: Blatner (booklabel); Robert Hoe (booklabel); Cortland Bishop (booklabel).
A VERY FINE COPY LAVISHLY HAND-COLOURED AND AUGMENTED WITH A SET OF EARLIER PLATES, pulled from the original copperplates of 1718, which had been retouched. The plates with the borders are taken from the Greek and Latin edition of 1754, to which the fine frames by Fokke had already been added. The culs-de-lampe are enlarged and reversed from the 1745 edition. Brunet and Cohen-de Ricci record no similar copy with such double series of plates. According to Brunet, the anonymous new translator is Le Camus. Cohen-de Ricci 653; Brunet III, 1158.