OVIDE, Jean-Baptiste LE PRINCE
Métamorphoses d’Ovide en Rondeaux: Imprimez et Enrichis de Figures Par Ordre de Sa Majesté, et Dediez à Monseigneur le Dauphin[Metamorphoses by Ovid]
Chez Le Clerc|à Paris 1767 - 1771|19.50 x 26 cm (In-4)|Copper engraving|4 volumes reliés
First edition, first issue, exhibiting all the bibliographical points recorded by Cohen-de Ricci (nos. 769–772): an engraved frontispiece, three dedication plates, four title ornaments, thirty vignettes and a final tailpiece, together with one hundred and forty full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece, numbered 2 to 140 and distributed 48, 33, 37 and 22 across the four volumes. The illustrations are after designs by Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Le Prince, Monnet and Moreau, and engraved by, among others, Baquoy, Basan, Binet, Duclos and de Ghendt. The frontispiece, three of the four title ornaments and the majority of the vignettes are the work of...
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