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Author: Longus
Title: Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe
Place Published: [Paris]
Publisher:[Cramoisy]
Date Published: 1718
Description:

[8], 159, xx pp. Illustrated with 21 plates, including the half-title, and 13 double page plates. Text in French. Title printed in red and black. (8vo) 16x9.5 cm (6¼x3¾"), full speckled calf, red morocco spine label titled in gilt, spine compartments decorated in gilt.

This copy based on the scarce "Regent" Edition, with illustrations from Benoit Audran and Philippe Charles d'Orlans, Regent of France from 1715, under the instruction of Coypel in 1714, with the frontispiece after Coypel himself.

Daphnis and Chloe is the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romancer Longus. Its style is rhetorical and pastoral, its shepherds and shepherdesses are wholly conventional, but the author imparts human interest to this idealized world. Daphnis and Chloe resembles a modern novel more than does its chief rival among Greek erotic romances.

Minor chipping to spine ends, some wear and rubbing to extremities, offsetting and pencil notations to endpapers; very good.