Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. /. Écrites en grec par Longus, & traduites en françois par Amiot. Avec figures.
Longus (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1716
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237407
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nouvelle édition.. [12], 220p., [8] leaves of plates :. ill. (engr.) ;. 12mo. Accession no. 5458. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.45. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt; deep straight-grained border, spine gilt with pointillé flowers in panels, lettered directly; blue headbands and blue silk marker; edges gilt over marble and drawn combed marbled endleaves. Bound by A.-M. Padeloup from the evidence of the spine tool also found on a Pomonius Mela, 1518, with his ticket (Sotheby's 28 February 1966, lot 20).
Makers and roles
Longus (fl.3rd century) Jacques Amyot, (1513 - 1593), Bishop of Auxerre