Book/Printed Material Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et en françoise, de la traduction de m. l'abbé ... avec des explications historiques. Copy 2

Title

• Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et en françoise, de la traduction de m. l'abbé ... avec des explications historiques.

Names

• Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
• Banier, M. l'abbé (Antoine), 1673-1741, translator.
• Goujet, Claude-Pierre, 1697-1767.
• Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778, illustrator.
• Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, illustrator.
• Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781, illustrator.
• Monnet, Charles, 1732-1816, illustrator.
• Parizeau, Ph. L. (Philippe Louis), 1740-1801, illustrator.
• Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730-1809, engraver.
• Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801, engraver.
• Massard, Jean, 1740-1822, engraver.
• Basan, François, 1723-1797, etcher.
• Panckoucke, Charles Joseph, 1736-1798, bookseller.
• Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner.
• Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
• Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• Paris, Panckoucke, 1767-71.

Headings

• -  Fables, Latin--Translations into French
• -  Metamorphosis--Mythology--Poetry
• -  Mythology, Classical--Poetry
• -  France--Paris

Notes

• -  Plates after Eisen, Monnet, J. M. Moreau, Boucher, Gravelot, Le Prince, Parizeau, and St. Gois, engraved by Lemire, Leveau, Massard, and others. Added title page, Dedication, title vignettes, head-pieces, and tail-piece (plate) in v. 4 engraved by Choffard.
• -  Added title page: Les Métamoorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les dessins des meilleurs peintres français. Par les soins des srs. Le Mire et Basan, graveurs. Paris, Chez Basan, Le Mire.
• -  Vols. 2-4 have imprint: Paris, Delalain.
• -  Part of the edition was issued by other publishers. A second, inferior edition is recognized by the date, 1770, of v. 4 and by an error in paging in v. 3 (p. 215 numbered 209) cf. H. Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures du XVIIIe siecle. 5. éd. 1886.
• -  "La vie d'Ovide, par M. G.*** [i. e. Goujet]": t. 1, p. xix-lvj."
• -  LAC ael 2019-10-03 update (3 cards)
• -  LAC ddw 2022-03-22 update (1 card)

Medium

• 4 v. 141 pl. 26 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• PA6523.M2 B3 1767
• PA6523.M2 B3 1767 Copy 2 Rosenwald Coll. With all the plates, added title page, dedication, and tail-piece in 2 states (before and after letters); a complete series of proofs of the vignettes and head-pieces; and 20 engraved pages with description of the plates. Bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop.
• PA6523.M2 B3 1767a Another issue. Plates only, including added title page, dedication and tail-piece and 20 engraved pages with description of the plates.

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1661v01
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1661v02
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1661v03
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1661v04
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1661A

Library of Congress Control Number

• 20003385

Online Format

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/20003385

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