Research Catalog

Title

Les bucoliques de Virgile / traduites en vers français ; [précédées de la vie du poète latin, et accompagnées de remarques sur le texte].

Author

Virgil

Publication

Paris : Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Langeac, chevalier de, 1748?-1830
• Michaud, J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.), 1767-1839
• Saint-Aubin, Augustin, 1736-1807
• Copia, Jacques Louis, 1764-1799

Description

341, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Bucolica. French & Latin

Alternative Title

Bucolica.

Subject

• Lacquered bindings > Specimens
• Bookbinding > France > 19th century > Specimens

Note

• Title on added t.p. in Latin: Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica.
• "Pour compléter les Œuvres de Virgile traduites par J. Delille."--Half title.
• Translated by E.L.E.J. de Lespinasse, chevalier de Langeac, with notes by J.F. Michaud. Cf. Quérard: La France littéraire, X, 236.
• Latin and French on opposite pages.
• Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.
• Illustrations: engraved port. of Virgil by A. Saint-Aubin after P. Bouillon; 5 full-page engravings from the set of 10 by J.L. Copia after J.B.M. Huet or A.E. Fragonard (issued variously with the engravings to the even-numbered eclogues and with the counterseries; another issue has the complete series).

Indexed In (note)

• Bibliothèque nationale cat.
• For variations see: Brunet

Binding (note)

• Binding, contemporary French, of quarter calf and wooden boards, spine tinted blue and sides lacquered red, gilt; with Empire-style decorations on spine including pelican in her piety, and painted and gilt cowslip on sides. For reproduction, cf. Martin Breslauer cat. 103, no. 139 (col. plate 21); Y. Devaux. Dix siècles de reliure, Paris, 1977, p. 221. For discussion of similar bindings, cf. A. Ehrman, Les reliures vernis sans odeur autrement dit "vernis Martin" (in the Book collector, v. 14 (1965) p. 523-527).
• Binding, modern, of cloth.

Local note

• Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316: With the engravings to the even-numbered eclogues.
• Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316a: With the engravings to the odd-numbered eclogues. Portrait and publisher's advertisements wanting.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316

OCLC

NYPG814250015-B

Author

Virgil.

Title

Les bucoliques de Virgile / traduites en vers français ; [précédées de la vie du poète latin, et accompagnées de remarques sur le texte].

Imprint

Paris : Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316: With the engravings to the even-numbered eclogues.

Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316a: With the engravings to the odd-numbered eclogues. Portrait and publisher's advertisements wanting.

Binding

Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316: Binding, contemporary French, of quarter calf and wooden boards, spine tinted blue and sides lacquered red, gilt; with Empire-style decorations on spine including pelican in her piety, and painted and gilt cowslip on sides. For reproduction, cf. Martin Breslauer cat. 103, no. 139 (col. plate 21); Y. Devaux. Dix siècles de reliure, Paris, 1977, p. 221. For discussion of similar bindings, cf. A. Ehrman, Les reliures vernis sans odeur autrement dit "vernis Martin" (in the Book collector, v. 14 (1965) p. 523-527).

Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316a: Binding, modern, of cloth.

Indexed In:

Bibliothèque nationale cat., v. 212, col. 204, no. 877.

For variations see: Brunet, V, 1302.

Added Author

Langeac, chevalier de, 1748?-1830.

Michaud, J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.), 1767-1839.

Saint-Aubin, Augustin, 1736-1807.

Copia, Jacques Louis, 1764-1799.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316

Spencer Coll. French 1806 80-316a