427 - Ovid. Les Metamorphoses en latin et en françois, de la traduction de Barnier; avec les explications historiques. 4 vols. Paris, Delalain (vol. 1) and Leclerc, 1767–71. With 1 engraved title page, 4 engraved title vignettes, 3 engraved dedication pages, 30 engraved text vignettes, 139 copperplate engravings, and 1 full-page engraved end piece. Small quarto. Contemporary leather bindings with 2 colored spine flaps, rich gilt spine decoration, fillets on the covers, gilt edges and inner corners, and gilt edges (scuffed, somewhat bumped).

Ovid. Les Metamorphoses en latin et en françois, de la traduction de Barnier; avec les explications historiques. 4 vols. Paris, Delalain (vol. 1) and Leclerc, 1767–71. With 1 engraved title page, 4 engraved title vignettes, 3 engraved dedication pages, 30 engraved text vignettes, 139 copperplate engravings, and 1 full-page engraved end piece. Small quarto. Contemporary leather bindings with 2 colored spine flaps, rich gilt spine decoration, fillets on the covers, gilt edges and inner corners, and gilt edges (scuffed, somewhat bumped). Cohen/Ricci 769ff. ('Superbe ouvrage'); Sander 1472. - Second printing of the illustrated Paris edition of Ovid; the first printing appeared simultaneously in Paris at Barrois. - Volume 1 begins with 8 pages of 'Explication des vignettes et fleurons' and 'Avis au relieur', which are mostly missing and were probably only bound into copies 'avant lettres'. Plate 13 also bears the uncorrected attribution of the engraver 'Eisen' (actually Gravelot; see Lewine 396). - Wide-margined copy on heavy paper. - Edges slightly browned throughout, a few leaves with slight damp staining, some faint foxing. - Bookplates on 3 endpapers ('John Benett of Pythouse', English politician, 1773-1852) and 1 bookplate on the pastedown.