230 - [LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY, Roland].

[LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY, Roland]. Tarsis and Zélie. Paris: Published by Musier Fils, 1774. 3 volumes in-8, (2)ff.-XXIII-563-(1) pp., (2) ff.-563-(1) pp., and (2) ff.-597-(1) pp., frontispieces. Contemporary fawn-colored tortoiseshell calfskin, decorated ribbed spine with title label and gilded floral panels, gilded fillets on the covers and edges, gilded roulette on the fore-edges, gilt edges (binding slightly rubbed with two slightly worn caps; a few small stains or very scattered foxing spots, but interior remains fresh). Illustrated edition featuring 3 frontispieces by Cochin, Moreau, and Eisen, engraved by Gaucher, Ponce, and Née; engraved vignettes on the title pages and 20 running heads by Eisen, engraved by Helman, De Longueil, Masquelier, and Massard. Description: An elegant 18th-century illustrated volume, very well published on laid paper. A novel originally published in 1665 and illustrated in 1720. A biography disguised as a Greek pastoral, recounting the twists and turns that delayed the author’s marriage to Mlle Servin. Inspired by Greek and Latin novels (Heliodorus’s *Ethiopica*) and Cervantes’s *Persiles and Sigismund*, it was adapted into an opera of the same name by Francoeur and Rebel.