LONGUS. - Lot 543

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LONGUS. - Lot 543
LONGUS. Les Pastorales de Longus, ou Daphnis et Chloé, complete translation from the Greek text of the best manuscripts. Paris : Firmin Didot, 1813. - In-8, 203 x 126 : xj, 192 pp. Long-grained red morocco, cold palmettes scroll framing the boards, bordered by a gilt fillet on the outside and framing a set of straight and oblique gilt fillet frames, spine decorated with gilt and cold motifs, red morocco framing inside, decorated with a gilt fillet, light blue moiré silk linings decorated with a gilt scroll framing, same silk endpapers, gilt edges (Lefebvre). First complete edition of Paul-Louis Courier's translation of Daphnis et Chloé delivered to the trade, decorated on the title with a medallion portrait of Longus. A very fine copy on wove paper in-8, bound by Lefebvre and enriched at the time with 9 line engravings (2 after Prudhon and 7 after Gérard) inspired by those of the Didot edition of 1800 but found in the edition of Annales du musée et de l'école moderne des beaux-arts published in 1809, 4 figures by Monsiau in two states (before the letter and pure etching) for the Maradan edition of 1799, an engraving in pure etching state for the Renouard edition of 1803 and the frontispiece by N. de Launay for the Lyon edition of 1777, also in pure etching. Also added at the end, Renouard's 16-page notice Sur une nouvelle Edition de la traduction française de Longus, par Amyot, et sur la découverte d'un fragment grec de cet ouvrage, dated 1810 . Some scattered foxing.
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