Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé, par Longus. Double traduction du Grec en François, de Mr. Amiot et d'un anonime [Le Camus] Mise en paralelle, et ornées des estampes originales du fameux B. Audran, gravées aux dépens du feu Duc d'Orléans, Régent de France, sur les tableaux inventés & peintes ... de ce grand Prince, avec un front. de Coypel & autres vignettes ... gravées par D. Focke sur les desseins de Cochin & de Eysen.

Accession number: 
PML 34895
Author: 
Longus.
Published: 
Paris, Imprimées pour les curieux, 1757.
Description: 
viii, 269 p. illus. 21 cm.
Notes: 

Collation: *4; A-Z[superscript]; Aa-L14(-4).
Exhibited by ... Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Bookbindings, London, 1891. Cat. 102, plate 103.
Translations of Amyot and Le Camus printed on opposite pages.
Frontispiece engraved by Audran after Coypel; ... 29 plates by Audran after Philippe d'Orleans, regent of France; 8 vignettes and 8 culs de lampe by Fokke after Cochin and Eisen. Plate 22, "Les petits pieds" is unlettered. Each page of text is surrounded by a double border formed of printers' ornaments, in the style of Fournier le jeune.
Fine copy on large paper.

Binding: 
18th century French olive morocco; in green morocco case. Gold tooled and inlaid mosaic by Louis Douceur with his ticket.
Provenance: 
From the collection of Mortimer L. Schiff (sale London, 24 March, 1938, lot 282). Crest of Joseph Gulston (1745-1786) of Ealing Grove, Middlesex, and number 1757 on second label of back.
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Classification: 
Binding Collection
Genres: 
Printing
Engravings
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books