OVIDE. - Lot 16

OVIDE. Ovid's Metamorphoses. Paris, Chez Basan et Le Mire, 1767-1771. 4 volumes in-4, Latin and French edition of the translation by M. l'Abbé Banier, de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, illustrated with a frontispiece, 3 fully engraved pages of dedication to the Duc de Chartres, 4 fleurons on the titles of the volumes, 30 vignettes, a cul-de-lampe at the end of the last volume, and 139 figures drawn by Boucher, Choffard, Eisen, Gravelot, Leprince, Monnet, Morenu, Parizeau and Saint-Gols engraved by Baquoy, Basan, Binet,... Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, boards framed in triple gilt fillet, 5-ribbed ornate spine, green morocco title-pieces, double fillet on the edges, all edges gilt. "This is one of the most gallantly illustrated of the entire century." Cohen (some foxing, some pages browned, cracks to spine and spine ends)