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Title

  • Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et en françoise, de la traduction de m. l'abbé ... avec des explications historiques.

Names

  • Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
  • Banier, M. l'abbé (Antoine), 1673-1741, translator.
  • Goujet, Claude-Pierre, 1697-1767.
  • Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778, illustrator.
  • Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, illustrator.
  • Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781, illustrator.
  • Monnet, Charles, 1732-1816, illustrator.
  • Parizeau, Ph. L. (Philippe Louis), 1740-1801, illustrator.
  • Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730-1809, engraver.
  • Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801, engraver.
  • Massard, Jean, 1740-1822, engraver.
  • Basan, François, 1723-1797, etcher.
  • Panckoucke, Charles Joseph, 1736-1798, bookseller.
  • Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner.
  • Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Paris, Panckoucke, 1767-71.

Headings

  • -  Fables, Latin--Translations into French
  • -  Metamorphosis--Mythology--Poetry
  • -  Mythology, Classical--Poetry
  • -  France--Paris

Notes

  • -  Plates after Eisen, Monnet, J. M. Moreau, Boucher, Gravelot, Le Prince, Parizeau, and St. Gois, engraved by Lemire, Leveau, Massard, and others. Added title page, Dedication, title vignettes, head-pieces, and tail-piece (plate) in v. 4 engraved by Choffard.
  • -  Added title page: Les Métamoorphoses d'Ovide gravées sur les dessins des meilleurs peintres français. Par les soins des srs. Le Mire et Basan, graveurs. Paris, Chez Basan, Le Mire.
  • -  Vols. 2-4 have imprint: Paris, Delalain.
  • -  Part of the edition was issued by other publishers. A second, inferior edition is recognized by the date, 1770, of v. 4 and by an error in paging in v. 3 (p. 215 numbered 209) cf. H. Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures du XVIIIe siecle. 5. éd. 1886.
  • -  "La vie d'Ovide, par M. G.*** [i. e. Goujet]": t. 1, p. xix-lvj."
  • -  LAC ael 2019-10-03 update (3 cards)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-03-22 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 4 v. 141 pl. 26 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PA6523.M2 B3 1767
  • PA6523.M2 B3 1767 Copy 2 Rosenwald Coll. With all the plates, added title page, dedication, and tail-piece in 2 states (before and after letters); a complete series of proofs of the vignettes and head-pieces; and 20 engraved pages with description of the plates. Bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop.
  • PA6523.M2 B3 1767a Another issue. Plates only, including added title page, dedication and tail-piece and 20 engraved pages with description of the plates.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 20003385

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Chicago citation style:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D, Claude-Pierre Goujet, Charles Eisen, Hubert François Gravelot, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, Charles Monnet, Ph. L Parizeau, et al. Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et en françoise, de la traduction de m. l'abbé ... avec des explications historiques. translateds by Banier, M. L'Abbé Paris, Panckoucke, -71, 1767. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/20003385/.

APA citation style:

Ovid, 4. B. C. -. A. D. O. 1. A. D., Goujet, C., Eisen, C., Gravelot, H. F., Le Prince, J., Monnet, C. [...] Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1767) Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et en françoise, de la traduction de m. l'abbé ... avec des explications historiques. Banier, M. L., trans Paris, Panckoucke, -71. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/20003385/.

MLA citation style:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D, et al. Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et en françoise, de la traduction de m. l'abbé ... avec des explications historiques. trans by Banier, M. L'Abbé Paris, Panckoucke, -71, 1767. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/20003385/>.