Daphnis et Chloé by Longus

Daphnis et Chloé

Longus
Raphaël Collin, illustrator
Champollion, engraver
J. Amyot, translator
Jules Claretie, preface

Librairie Artistique: H. Launette et Cie. Éditeurs — G. Boudet, Succr 1890

Hardcover. Rebound in three-quarter green leather over marbled paper, with gilted leather spine label. Edges are toned and endpapers foxed, spine scuffed. Formerly of the Cheltenham Public Library, with library bookplate and reference list in front endpapers, and stamped throughout. A highly regarded edition with beautiful illustrations from French painter Raphaël Collin. Includes 12 gravures outside of the text and 29 in the text. One of fifty copies printed "tirage de grand luxe", of which this is #41. In French.