53. Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé, first edition [one of 250 copies] , engraved pictorial title by Benoit Audran after Antoine Coypel and 28 plates, 13 double-page, by Benoit Audran after Philippe d’Orléans, text area 92 x 57mm, stained, handsome contemporary red morocco, richly gilt , covers with wide gilt borders au pointillé, spine in 6 compartments, all but 1 with gilt floral motif, head of spine professionally repaired, ?a little re-gilding to spine, g.e., [Cohen-de Ricci 648-651 “‘jolie édition très recherchée”; Ray, French, 2; Sander 1221], 8vo (157 x 102mm), [Paris], [Quillau], 1718.
est. £750 – £1000
A handsomely bound copy of the ‘edition de Régent’. The drawings for the plates were made by Philippe, duc d’ Orléans under the tutelage of Antoine Coypel in 1714. This does not have the additional plate ‘Les petits pieds’, which was not issued by the Comte de Caylus until 1728.
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