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1164 - COLARDEAU, Charles-Pierre *The Temple of Gnide*. In verse [...]. Paris: Le Jay [1773] In-8°: [4]-xvi-88 pp.; 7 ill. (slight foxing or spots; a few leaves or plates slightly browned). Red morocco leather, fine straight gilt lace edging the covers, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt fleurons and a green title label, gilt fillet on the edges, twisted gilt roll on the corners, gilt edges. A very fine copy. A poem based on Montesquieu’s novel, illustrated (complete) with an engraved title page featuring a portrait of Corneille and 7 etchings by Bacquoy, Delaunay, Née, etc., after Charles Monnet. Cohen, who cites a copy dated 1773, notes that some copies bear the date 1772 or are undated. Ref. Cohen 245–246. - Conlon 72:675 (ed. at the Amsterdam and Paris addresses, 1772). - Not in Reynaud.
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COLARDEAU, Charles-Pierre *The Temple of Gnide*. In verse [...]. Paris: Le Jay [1773] In-8°: [4]-xvi-88 pp.; 7 ill. (slight foxing or spots; a few leaves or plates slightly browned). Red morocco leather, fine straight gilt lace edging the covers, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt fleurons and a green title label, gilt fillet on the edges, twisted gilt roll on the corners, gilt edges. A very fine copy. A poem based on Montesquieu’s novel, illustrated (complete) with an engraved title page featuring a portrait of Corneille and 7 etchings by Bacquoy, Delaunay, Née, etc., after Charles Monnet. Cohen, who cites a copy dated 1773, notes that some copies bear the date 1772 or are undated. Ref. Cohen 245–246. - Conlon 72:675 (ed. at the Amsterdam and Paris addresses, 1772). - Not in Reynaud.
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