Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé
Contributors: Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593, translator; Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, engraver; Coypel, Antoine, 1661-1722, illustrator; Audran, Jean, 1667-1756, engraver; Orléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723, illustrator
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1745
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Daphnis (Greek mythology); Fiction
Other titles: Daphnis et Chloé
Work titles: Daphnis and Chloe
Notes: Signatures: pi1 a⁴ A-L⁸ M².

Added engraved title page dated 1718, engraved by Audran after Coypel.

28 plates are engraved by Audran after designs by Philippe d'Orléans, the last plate "Petits pieds" is unsigned.

Title printed in red and black; engraved title vignette; engraved head- and tail-pieces.

The four head-pieces at the beginning of each book are by Cochin.

The plates are the same as the ones used in the 1718 edition. Another edition also published in 1745 with only 8 plates appears to be a reedition of the one published by Coustelier in 1731. Cf. Cohen-De Ricchi.

French translation by Jacques Amyot.

Cohen-De Ricci col. 652-653

Binding: red morocco; boards and turn-ins tooled in gilt with dentelles; gilt monogram centered on front board; all edges gilt; green silk place marker.