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1776102736<p>Paris typographia Fr. Amb. Didot 1776. 12mo. viii 157 pp. Contemporary full red morocco binding spine goldtooled covers with a three-line border inner dentelles gilt all edges gilt.</p><p>Edition in Greek with a preface in Latin of the pastoral romance by Longus or Longos 2nd century AD. The work was first printed Florence in 1598. The present edition was established by Louis Dutens 1730-1812 and is one of two editions in Ancient Greek that were published during the eighteenth century the other Amsterdam 1754. It was published by the François-Ambroise Didot who may be said to have laid the foundation of the subsequent typographic celebrity of the house of Didot. He made great improvements in type-founding and his founts of type were superior to all that had been produced previously in France. <strong>According to Brunet this edition was printed in only 200 copie.s</strong> c.f. Bigmore & Wyman I p. 176; Brunet 3 1155.</p> Didot
1763AQ33109London: Printed for J. Knox 1763. viii 184pp. With six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled sheep. Rubbed and lightly marked loss to head of spine. Marbled endpapers Recent bookplate of Liam Sims to FEP scattered spotting. An anonymous mid-eighteenth-century English translation of the only extant work of inconspicuous second-century Hellenistic author Longus. The novel considered the first pastoral prose narrative concerns two foundlings raised by shepherds who fall in love. They are later kidnapped and separated but ultimately reunited. Daphnis and Chloe is distinguished by its singular exploration of eroticism; concertedly focused on the physical aspects of romantic relationships with particular comments on masochism and rape. The novel served as inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia 1590 and was the source book for Shakespeare's As You Like It. ESTC T141479. Fourth edition. 12mo. Printed for J. Knox unknown
17781394667Parisiis Paris: Excudebat Franc. Ambr. Didot . Sumptibus Guill. De Bure Printed by François-Ambroise Didot for Guillaume Debure 1778. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo 8 xcii 135 ff. 312 pages 3. In Good minus condition. Bound in half light brown leather and marbled paper boards with gilt lettered spine label. Boards show light plus wear to edges sunning and light wear to leather on boards and significant cracking and toning to leather on spine. Text block has light plus age toning to untrimmed edges. Text for Daphnis and Chloe in Greek and Latin on double-paginated opposing pages. Commentary by de Villoison in Latin and French separately paginated. An important early edition of the Longus' Greek Romance. 1394667. Special Collections - Downstairs. Excudebat Franc. Ambr. Didot [..] Sumptibus Guill. De Bure [Printed by François-Ambroise Didot for Guillaume Debure] hardcover
