LONGI PASTORALIUM, DE DAPHNIDE ET CHLOË, LIBRI QUATUOR.
Lutetiae Parisiorum [i.e. Amsterdam]: 1754. Small Quarto, 175 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in period red morocco with triple gilt rule to board edges and brown label with gilt lettering to elaborate gilt spine. Boards show mild rubbing and slight cracking to upper rear hinge. Large bookplate removed from front pastedown, replaced with small bookplate. Top edge of text block gilt. Gilt rolls to doublure edges. Marbled endpapers.
Bilingual, with Greek on the verso and Latin on the recto; illustrated with 28 of the 29 plates plus a frontispiece, lacking plate 20 with signs it was cut out (Titled 'Liccenion écoute Daphnis et Chloé qui cherchent remede d'Amour'), elaborate vignettes and headpieces. MW Consignment. Shelved in Case 3.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,600
NOTES
Daphnis and Chloe is an ancient Greek novel written in the Roman Empire, the only known work of the second-century AD Greek novelist and romance writer Longus.