Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé, par Longus.. Double traduction du Grec en François, de Mr. Amiot et d'un Anonime, mises en paralelle, et ornées des estampes originales du fameux B. Audran, ...
Longus (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1757
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3008586
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,269,[1]p, frontis., 29 plates. ill... 4to. Accession no. 5490. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: removed nineteenth-century book-label of Aug. Fabre. Bought by Morgand et Fatout for 2000 francs and sold to Baron Ferdinand for 3,500 francs in December 1895; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p. 46. Binding: mid-eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt; wide dentelle border with corner tool of a shepherd, complete with houlette and dog, and bird tool at the mid-points. In the centre of the cover a wreath, pierced hearts, fronds, around a large stamp of a couple dancing while another man plays a flute; spine gilt with floral decoration, lettered directly in second panel, and pallet. Edges gilt over marble; light and dark blue headbands; blue silk marker, blue silk linings cut back to deep turn-in roll. The volume bears on the centre of first fly-leaf the trade card of P.-P. Dubuisson, but the Barber catalogue indicates that there are also similarities to the work of J.-A. Derome.
Makers and roles
Longus (fl.3rd century) B. Audran Jacques Amyot, (1513 - 1593), Bishop of Auxerre