Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites en grec par Longus

LONGUS

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites en grec par Longus, & translatées en françois par Jacques Amyot. Londres [Paris], 1779

29 engraved plates, woodcut ornaments.

4to (223 x 170mm, copy having very wide outer margins). [4], vi, 182, [2(blank)]p., half-title, text and title printed within a double ruled border, English red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, triple gilt fillet on covers and spine, elaborate gilt turn-ins, edges uncut, bound with original waste paper wrappers of Daphnis & Chloe sheets.

Londres [Paris; J. F. Valade], 1779.

£750.00

This is one of a number of editions, one in small format and without borders, with this imprint. Whilst referring obliquely to the version produced by Le Camus, the publisher of this edition rejects it in favour of Amyot although the Avertissement states that some things would be clarified in the notes. These do not exist. The plates are reversed copies of those by Philippe d’Orleans. The small woodcut vignette on the title shows a mill by a river, and a fisherman with rod under a tree is charming.

Valade became a bookseller on April 6, 1773 and a printer on December 11, 1778. Valade’s son Jean-Jacques-Denys Valade entered the trade of bookseller in 1777 and became a printer in 1785.

Half-title a little foxed.

Cohen De Ricci p. 654; Tenschert Longus no. LIV.

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252849

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Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites en grec par Longus, & translatées en françois par Jacques Amyot. Londres [Paris], 1779

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