‎OVIDIUS - OVIDE - Abbé Banier (commentary) :‎
‎Gedaanteverwisselingen van P.Ovidius Naso en derzelver verklaring door Abt Banier. Vercierd met CXL. Prentverbeeldingen, zeer keurig naar de Tekeningen van Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, en anderen, in het Koper gebragt, door de beroemde Kunstgraveerders Le Mire, Longueil, &c. (Two volumes).‎

‎" Amsterdam, D.J. Changuion en G. Warnars, 1779, 2 vols in-4°, 28 x 21,5 cm, engraved frontispiece, two coloured title-page with engraved vignette + (10) + 279 pp + 80 copper engraved plates h.t. ; two coloured title page with engr. vign. + 308 pp +(10) pp + 61 copp. engr. plates (includ. endplate). Contemporary half leather with richly decorated smooth back with double labels in green and red leather. Very handsome copy. Attractive 18th century illustrated translation in Dutch of the Metamorphoses of Ovidius. The two volumes comprise a total of 141 full-page engravings by the most famous contemporary illustrators like Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Leprince, Monnet, Moreau, Parizeau et Saint-Gois. The illustrations in this work were originally used for a French edition (by de Prault, Paris, 1767-1771) of which Cohen (pp. 769-772) says; ''Superbe ouvrage...c'est un des plus galamment illustrés de tout le siècle''. See also; Exhibition catalogue, The Hague, Museum Meermanno Westranium, 1980, Ovidius herschapen, item 44."‎

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