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Daphnis and Chloe : a most sweet and pleasant pastoral romance for young ladies / done into English by Geo. Thornley.

Accession number
PML 141685
Creator
Longus.
Published
[London] : Sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
"The woodcuts drawn on the wood by Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts have been engraved by both"--Colophon.
"The printing is by the Ballantyne Press, London and Edinburgh"--Colophon.
Ed. of 210 copies.
Extra-illustrated with plates from a 1718 edition of Daphnis et Chloe engraved by B. Audran and others after designs by A. Coypel and others.
Description
106 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full blue crushed levant morocco with floral motifs inlaid in green and brown, tooled in gilt with silk doublures by Pétrus Ruban and dated 1899, in slipcase.
Classification
Department