Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé.
Longus (fl.3rd century)
Category
Books
Date
1718
Materials
Place of origin
Paris?
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237408
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],164p., plates. ill. 8vo. Accession no. 5459. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Rubricated throughout. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Philippe, duc d'Orléans (1674-1723); Morgand et Fatout; E. Quentin-Bauchart (book-label, sale 1881, lot 30); Delbergue-Cormont (sale 1883, lot 163); Comte Mosbourg (book-label, sale 1893, lot 177); 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.96. Binding\; eighteenth-century French mosaic binding onlaid on red morocco; covers with the arms of duc d'Orléans; surrounded by a brown leather frame with, further, leafy swags of dark and light brown leather. Green circles in the corners feature fleurs-de-lis on the red morocco at their centres; spine has a lettering-piece of brown leather in the second panel reading 'Daphnis / et/ Chloë', while other panels each have different onlaid designs, including the whirling wheel. Pink and black headbands, edges gilt over marble, pink sillk marker and linings.
Makers and roles
Longus (fl.3rd century) B. Audran Jacques Amyot, (1513 - 1593), Bishop of Auxerre Longus (fl.3rd century)