Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé.
by LONGUS
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Zürich, Switzerland
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About This Item
Paris, Coustelier, 1731. Title printed in red and black. With additional engr. pictorial title, engr. vignette on printed title, 8 plates engr. by Jean Baptiste Scotin, and 4 engr. head-pieces. Title, 4 leaves, 158, (1), XX pp. Small 8vo. Contemp. calf with red spine label (rep.). (Paris, Coustelier), 1731. Nice edition of Longus' "Daphnis and Chloé", in the popular French translation of Jaques Amyot (1513-1593). It contains for the first time the copious philological annotations by Antoine Lancelot (1675-1740), in which he often corrects Amyot's text. Scotin's engravings congenially represent the time-typical impression of rural life. - Printed title rehinged, some waterstaining to engr. title mainly on verso, light browing throughout. - Quérard, La France littéraire V, 351; Cohen/De Ricci 651; Lewine 322; Sander 1222; Hoefer XXIX, 327 (Lancelot). LITERATURE: FRENCH ; ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (BEFORE 1900) ;
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- Bookseller
- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32030-30
- Title
- Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé.
- Author
- LONGUS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Paris, Coustelier
- Date Published
- 1731
- Keywords
- LITERATURE: FRENCH ;
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...