Description: 19^th-century binding, 8vo,18.9 x 11.7 cm, in patterned quarter green shagreen over marbled boards, gilt elements and lettering to spine (reliure romantique), printed on laid paper, with tall “s”, margins sprinkled blue.

Title-page (red and black): L’ART | D’AIMER, | NOUVEAU POËME | EN SIX CHANTS, | Par Monsieur ***** Gouge de Cessières. | Edition fidéle & complette, enrichie de | Figures. | {vignette} | A LONDRES. | Aux dépens de la Compagnie. | = | M. DCC. L. ||

Includes: La Mort de Zulnï (pp.  175-190 ), Idée de l’Art d’aimer d’Ovide (pp. 191-244), and Lettre écrite à Monsieur *** de ******de l’Académie… (pp. 245-261).

Collation: 8vo; a-b⁸, A-Q⁸ R³, lacking K₂ (pp. 147/8); total 146 leaves (of 147) plus 8 engraved plates, unsigned, incl. frontispiece.

Pagination: [i, ii] iii-xxxii, [1, 2] 3-261 [262 blank], lacking pp. 147/8 (K₂), possibly containing Argument du chant VI; total 292 pages (of 294), ils.

Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-DeRicci (under Ovid) 775, Lewine (under Ovid) 398. The artist and engravers of this edition are unknown. “Another edition, Londres (Paris), 1760, with frontispiece after Eisen by Martinet, and 6 plates after Martinet”.

Contributors:

François-Étienne Gouge de Cessières (French, 1724 – 1782) – author.

Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (Roman, 43 B.C. – A.D. 17) – author.

Aux dépens de la Compagnie (1685 – 1780) (Amsterdam) – publisher.