‎"ANACREON (+) SAPHO (+) BION DE PHLOSSA.‎
‎Anacréon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus, traduction nouvelle en prose, suivie de la Veillée des fêtes de Vénus, et d'un choix de pièces de différens auteurs (+) Héro et Léandre Pöeme de Musée. - [""AMONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF THE CENTURY""]‎

‎Paris, Le Boucher, 1773 & 1774 4to (228 x 156 mm). Bound in a very beautiful, a bit later, light brown full grained morrocoo binding with five raised bands, richly gilt spines, gilt lines to boards, inner gilt dentelles and gilt capitals. All edges gilt. Binding by 'Sture Falks Bogbinderi', Lund, Sweden. Housed in a slipcase. Ex-libris to pasted down front end-paper (Maurice B. Worms) and to front free end-paper (Per Erik & Ludmilla Lindahl). A very nice and clean copy. (4), IV, 280, XVI, 104 pp. + 2 frontispieces, 12 headers and 13 tailpieces by Eisen, engraved by Massard and Duclos.‎

Reference : 60357


‎First edition of Moutonnet's translation of Anacreon illustrated by Duclos after Eisen - widely considered to be ""One of the most charmingly illustrated books of the eighteenth century"" (Salomons). Sander 17 Cohen 79: ""l'un des livres les plus élégamment illustrés du XVIIIe siècleFürstenberg 92: ""The Anakreon from 1773 is on the same level (as the illustrations for 'Le Temple de Gnide' from 1772) and must also be counted among the most beautiful books of the century."" ‎

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