[Rarebooks] FS: METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE, 1676, with Beautiful Engravings

[Charles Agvent]

[EMBLEM BOOK] OVID [BENSERADE (Isaac de)]. METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE en 
Rondeaux Imprimez et Enrichis de Figures par Ordre de sa Majeste, Dediez 
a Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1676. First Edition. 
Two small quarto (6-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in full mottled calf 
leather with marbled endpapers and gilt-lettered contrasting morocco 
spine labels: [x], 243, [1]; 220, [4] pages. Text in French translation 
by Issac de Benserade who was commissioned by Louis XIV to make this 
translation for the education of his son, Louis -- Le Grand Dauphin of 
France. Illustrated with title vignettes and 226 half-page engravings by 
Francois Chauveau and Sebastien Le Clerc; lacking the frontispiece. 
Philip Hofer in BAROQUE BOOK ILLUSTRATION refers to the illustrations as 
prefigurements of the "grace and elegance of the best French rococo" 
(page 14). Bookplate of Mr. Edward F. Starbuck on the front pastedown of 
each volume with ink presentation on the bookplates. Lacking the 
frontispiece; owner names on front blanks; title page to first volume 
with short stitched repair of a tear; contents clean with dark 
impressions of the plates. Bindings solid with light wear and short 
splits along the joints with covers firm. Near Fine. (#020472)        $1,500

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