Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, en Latin et en François, de la Traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier, de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres ; avec des Explications Historiques.

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FIRST EDITION THUS. 4 vols. 4to. (25 x 19.5 cm). Full early to mid-19th century red straight-grain morocco by Vogel* (his name gilt to spine of volume 1), sides ruled with gilt fillet and blind-stamped floral border, each with central blind stamped floral design highlighted in gilt surrounded by french fillet and gilt foliate sprays, inner dentelles gilt, tan-coated endpapers, blue silk ribbon page-markers, all edges gilt. Text in French and Latin, each volume with half-title present, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 3 page engraved dedication in volume 1. Engraved title, engraved dedication to le Duc de Chartres, and 139 engraved plates after Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Leprince, Monnet, Moreau, Parizeau, and St. Gois, plus 30 engraved vignettes of which 26 by Choffard and 4 by Monnet. From the collection of of French dramatist M. Victorien Sardou (1831- 1908), sold as lot 181 in the sale of his (vast) library in 1909. Some faint trivial shelfwear, light toning and occasional faint isolated spotting, generally a fine set in superb bindings. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE 18TH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED OF ALL ILLUSTRATED OVID PRINTINGS. A COPY IN RARE FINE RED MOROCCO BINDINGS. "Superbe ouvrage dû aux soins de l'éditeur Basan et du graveur le Mire. C'est un des plus galamment illustrés de tout le siècle" (Cohen-de Ricci). "Thus there came into being these four splendid volumes in which the veteran Boucher appears beside the young Moreau, with Eisen, Choffard, Monnet and Gravelot also playing substantial roles. The result is a high point among illustrated books of the eighteenth century" (Gordon N. Ray). *Vogel's name "first appears in the trade directories in 1826, at rue Dauphine 24; then 1832 -1849 at Four-St.-Germain 78;1845-1851 rue des Canettes 14" (British Library). Cohen-de Ricci, 769.

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Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, en Latin et en François, de la Traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier, de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres ; avec des Explications Historiques.

Verlag

ParisChez Le Clerc Quai des Augustins vols I & II and Delain vols III & IV -1771.

Erscheinungsjahr

1767

Einband

Hardcover

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1. Auflage

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