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)|4 volumes reliés
First edition, first issue, with every feature described by Cohen. The illustration includes a frontispiece, three dedication plates, four printed titles in red and black with engraved vignette, thirty vignettes, and a fine tailpiece concluding the final volume. In addition, there are 140 engraved full-page plates (including the frontispiece, numbered 2 to 140), by Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Leprince, Monnet, and Moreau, and engraved by Baquoy, Basan, Binet, Duclos, and de Ghendt - 48 in the first volume, 33 in the second, 37 in the third, and 22 in the last. The frontispiece, the fleurons in the first three volumes, and
€10,000