Les metamorphoses d'Ovide
Subtitle: en latin et en françois
By: de la traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier, de l'Académie Royale des inscriptions & belles-lettres ; avec des explications historiques
Contributors: Banier, M. l'abbé (Antoine), 1673-1741; Basan, François, 1723-1797; Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730-1809; Despilly, Jean-Baptiste, fl. 1743-1788; Goujet, Claude-Pierre, 1697-1767; Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801; Pissot, Noël-Jacques, 1724?-1804
Publisher: Chez Pissot, quai de Conti, à la Croix-d'or
Published: 1767
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Vol. 2 published by Pissot, quai de Conti à la Toison d'or, 1768; v. 3 & 4 by Despilly, rue Saint Jacques à la Croix d'or, 1769 & 1771.

"La vie d'Ovide, tirée de ses écrits, par M. G*** [i.e. Goujet]," v. 1, p. xix-lvj.

Vol. 1 has added title engraved by Choffard (numbered as plate 1): Les métamorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les desseins des meilleurs peintres français. Par les soins des Srs. Le Mire et Basan graveurs. A Paris chez Basan, rue du Foin S. Jacques; [chez] Le Mire, rue S. Etienne des Grès.

Added engraved title followed by Basan & Le Mire's three-page dedication to the duc de Chartres, also engraved by Choffard.

140 full-page plates by Jean Charles Baquoy, François Basan, Louis Binet, Nicolas Delaunay, Antoine Jean Duclos, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Isidore-Stanislas Helman, Louis Claude Legrand, Noël Le Mire, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, Jacques Le Roy, Jean Jacques Le Veau, Joseph de Longueil, Louis-Joseph Masquelier, Jean Massard, Simon Charles Miger, François Denis Née, Nicolas Ponce, Jean François Rousseau, Augustin Saint-Aubin, Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet. They are after drawings by François Boucher, Charles Eisen, Hubert François Gravelot, Le Prince, Charles Monnet, Jean Michel Moreau (1741-1814), Philippe Louis Parizeau and Saint-Gois.

Engraved title vignette in each vol. by Choffard, that in v. 4 after Charles Monnet. Thirty head-pieces by Choffard (a few after Monnet), and a full-page "cul-de-lampe" at end of v. 4 with legend: Fin des estampes des Métamorphoses.

Additional woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some signed Caron.

Pagination, v. 1: [4], xc, [2], 264 p., [2] engraved leaves of text, 48 leaves of plates -- v. 2: viij, 355, [1], 8 p., 49-81 leaves of plates -- v. 3: viij, 360 p., 82-118 leaves of plates -- v. 4: viij, 367, [1], 8 p., 119-140, [1] leaves of plates

Includes index.

Latin verse and French prose on facing pages.

Getty copy has additional copy of final "cul-de-lampe" bound at end of v. 2, not called for in "Avis au relieur." A third copy is loosely inserted at end of v. 4.

Bound in 4 vols. in mottled calfskin, tooled in gilt. Author/title and vol. no. on separate spine labels. Edges gilt. Ribbon place markers. Bookplates with initials W R H J.