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LONGUS. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé.
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LONGUS. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé.
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Lot no. 49
LONGUS.
Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé.
Paris: printed for the curious, 1757. - Small in-4, 198 x 155: frontispiece, viii, 269 pp. 29 plates. Red morocco, gilt roulette around the edges of the boards, surrounding a large gilt small-ink lace, ornate ribbed spine, gilt roulette inside, gilt edges, black morocco spine case (contemporary binding, modern case).
Cohen, 653.
A fine edition, known as the "edition des curieux", presenting in parallel the translations of Jacques Amyot (1513-1593) and Antoine Le Camus (1722-1772), the latter appearing here for the first time.
The illustration consists of the frontispiece and the 28 figures from the 1718 edition, known as the Regent's edition, as well as the figure of the "little feet" (p. 162), all retouched and surrounded by beautiful frames by Simon Fokke (1712-1784). It also includes a small title vignette, 8 headpieces by Eisen, including 2 in duplicate and 1 in triplicate, and 8 headpieces by Cochin, including 3 repeated, all engraved by Fokke. These are the same figures as in the Greek and Latin edition of 1754. The quatrefoils are from the 1745 edition, enlarged and turned over.
A precious copy on large paper, in a splendid contemporary lace binding in the style of Derome or Louis Douceur.
Slight crack restored to one hinge.
Provenance: Henry David Leonard George Walston, Baron Walston (1912-1991), British farmer and politician, with his heraldic bookplate including the words "Wachsthum und Stetigkeit" and "Newton Hall, Cambridge". - Christie's sale on 29 November 1999, with bookmark.
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