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159 - LONGUS. The Pastorals of Longus, or Daphnis and Chloe.
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LONGUS. The Pastorals of Longus, or Daphnis and Chloe. A copy as published, first edition of Courier’s translation. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1813. Small 8vo, paperback, blue cover, white title label printed in black. XI and 192 pp. Very slight foxing on the edges. Rare first edition, printed on vellum, of Paul-Louis Courier’s translation (a previous edition dated 1810 had been printed in a limited run of only 64 copies not intended for general sale). This translation, based on a manuscript of the complete novel found in the Laurentian Library, supplements and corrects the incomplete version by Bishop Amyot (1559). (Clouzot, p. 76). Rare in this condition.
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