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OVID. Les Métamorphoses d' Ovide gravées sur les desseins des meilleurs peintres Français, Paris: Basan & Le Mire, 1770, 8°, engraved title, dedication, 139 plates after Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau and others, and 20 engraved tables of "explication des planches," mounted on guards throughout (occasional browning and staining, marginal repair to one plate), later tan calf gilt. [Cohen-de-Ricci 769-772; Ray 62: "The supreme anthology of French rococo book illustration"]