Les Amours Pastorales De Daphnis et Chloe, LONGUS.

Escrites en Grec par Longus, & translatées en François par Jacques Amyot.

Engraved frontispiece and 29 plates.

Small 4to. [221 x 155 x 22 mm]. [2]ff, vi, [i], 8-182 pp. Early 19th century French (?) binding of straight-grained citron goatskin, the covers with a gilt border composed of three fillets and a floral roll and a blind panel composed of three fillets and a crested roll with a palmette ornament in the corners. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others with a fern-like centre tool, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (A few darker spots on the front cover).
A Londres: 1779

Cohen De Ricci p.654 (calling for frontispiece and 28 plates). The imprint is false, with Paris a likely place of publication.

Stock no. ebc3660