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LONGUS. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. French translation by Jacques Amyot. 30 etched plates by Gérard Vidal after Philippe d'Orléans except for frontispiece after Coypel and mildly suggestive final plate ("Conclusion du Roman") after the Comte de Caylus. xii, 207 pages, including half-title. 12mo, 154x96 mm, later 19th-century red morocco by Beet, elegantly gilt with lacework border on covers, joints slightly rubbed; contents generally clean. Bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop (sold as lot 1352 in his sale, 25 April 1938). Bouillon: Imprimerie de la Société Typographique, 1776
Handsomely produced edition, with illustrations after drawings made by Prince Philippe d'Orléans under the tutelage of Antoine Coypel, which were originally published in 1718. This is a relatively early imprint from Bouillon in Belgium, where printing was only introduced in the 1760s. Cohen-de Ricci 654; cf. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 2.
