Les metamorphoses d'Ovide : en latin et en françois
- Title
- Les metamorphoses d'Ovide : en latin et en françois / de la traduction de M. l'abbé Banier...avec des explications historiques...
- Published by
- A Paris : Chez Barrois, 1767-71.
- Author
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| Status Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 | FormatText | AccessBy appointment only | Call numberSpencer Coll. French 1767 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 4 v. plates.; 26cm. (4̕.)
- Uniform title
- Metamorphoses. French & Latin
- Alternative title
- Metamorphoses.
- Subject
- Call number
- Spencer Coll. French 1767
- Note
- See: Brunet, IV, 285-286. Cohen de Ricci, col. 769-772.
- Engraved title vignettes.
- Latin and French on opposite pages.
- Vol. 1 has added engraved illustrated t.-p.: Les métamorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les desseins des meilleurs peintres français. PAr les soins des Srs. Le Mire et Basan, graveurs. A Paris: Chez Basan, Le Mire. [Signed] P. P. Choffard fecit 1767.
- Vol. 3 published "Chez la Ve. Barrois"; v. 4, "Chez Despilly."
- Three pages of dedication in v. 1 engraved by Choffard.
- "La vie d'Ovide, tirée de ses écrits, par M. G*** [Goujet]" v. 1, p. xix-lvi.
- Illustrations: 139 full page copper engravings (47 in v. 1, 33 in v. 2, 37 in v. 3, and 22 in v. 4) by Le Mire, De Longueil, Le Veau, De Launay, Massard, Baquoy and others after Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Le Prince, Monnet, J. M. Moreau, Parizeau and Saint-Gois. 30 headpieces and full page tailpiece (v. 4), engraved on copper by Choffard.
- Binding, by Derome (?) of full green morocco, gilt, with a central medallion, in the manner of Angelica Kauffmann, on each cover (front and back) depicting a mythological scene painted on parchment and superimposed upon the arms of one of the Louis, which may have been removed or may still be under the medallions.
- Author
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Title
- Les metamorphoses d'Ovide : en latin et en françois / de la traduction de M. l'abbé Banier...avec des explications historiques...
- Imprint
- A Paris : Chez Barrois, 1767-71.
- Added author
- Banier, M. l'abbé (Antoine), 1673-1741.
- Basan, François, 1723-1797.
- Goujet, Claude-Pierre, 1697-1767.
- Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801.
- Choffard, Pierre Philippe, 1730?-1809, engr.
- Research call number
- Spencer Coll. French 1767