408 - Longus. Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Cloé, escrites en Grec, & translatées en François par Jacques Amyot. London, 1779. 2 leaves, 182 pages. With engraved frontispiece by A. Coypel, small woodcut title vignette, and 29 copperplate engravings after Ph. d'Orléans, engraved by B. Audran. Large octavo. Smooth, 19th-century red leather binding with rich floral gilt spine decoration and gilt-tooled fillets on the covers, front and inner edges, and gilt edges (somewhat rubbed, spine joints cracked, slightly discolored).

Longus. Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Cloé, escrites en Grec, & translatées en François par Jacques Amyot. London, 1779. 2 leaves, 182 pages. With engraved frontispiece by A. Coypel, small woodcut title vignette, and 29 copperplate engravings after Ph. d'Orléans, engraved by B. Audran. Large octavo. Smooth, 19th-century red leather binding with rich floral gilt spine decoration and gilt-tooled fillets on the covers, front and inner edges, and gilt edges (somewhat rubbed, spine joints cracked, slightly discolored). Sander 1230; Cohen/Ricci 654. - Wide-margined quarto edition of this Renaissance translation of the ancient classic, praised for its naiveté and grace. The first edition was published in 1559. - Each plate with wide borders and tendrils. - Occasionally slightly browned, some with a small damp stain at the top of the binding edge.