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Daphnis et Chloé / Longus ; compositions de Raphael Collin ; gravées à l'eau-forte par Champollion ; préface par Jules Claretie.

Accession number
PML 141688
Creator
Longus.
Published
[Paris:] : H. Launette et Cie, 1890.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Illustrations: 29 vignettes in the text, and 12 plates, all with plate proofs in two states; appended, 12 proofs before letters, with remarques, 10 bearing the observations of R. Collin. In all, 135 illustrations.
"Ce livre a été achevé d'imprimer ... par Georges Chamerot"--Colophon.
"Cette réimpression de Daphnis et Chloë a été faite d'après la traduction de J. Amyot, revue, corrigée et completée par Paul-Louis Courier"--t.p. verso.
Ed. of 1100 copies.
Library has copy no. 45 on Japon, containing the engravings in three different states.
Description
viii, 190 p., [94] leaves of plates ; 29 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Samuel Treat Armstrong; bookplate of Francis Kettaneh; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full blue morocco tooled in gilt by Marius Michel.
Classification
Department