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OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les Desseins des Meilleurs Peintres Français. Engraved title and 141 plates by various

OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les Desseins des Meilleurs Peintres Français. Engraved title and 141 plates by various artists after Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, et al.; 2 engraved dedication leaves. 4to, contemporary French red morocco handsomely gilt, green silk doublures and endleaves (the former faded to brown), joints and extremities rubbed; some marginal foxing and soiling, stain in blank outer margin of plate 72. Lucien Allienne bookplate. Paris: chez Basan [&] Le Mire, [1767-1771]

  • Notes: Separate issue of the illustrations to the 1767-71 Latin-French edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, "... the supreme anthology of French rococo book illustration" (Ray). Cohen-de Ricci 769-72; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 62.

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