Title-page: IDYLLES | DE BION | ET | DE MOSCHUS, | TRADUITES EN FRANÇAIS | Par J. B. Gail, Professeur de littéra- | ture grecque au collège de France. | Ouvrage orné de Figures dessinées par le Barbier. | DE L’IMPRIMERIE DE DIDOT JEUNE. | A PARIS, | Chez Gail, au Collège de France, place | Cambrai. | L’AN TROISIEME. ||
Small volume in-12mo, 14.7 x 10 cm, bound in tree calf with gilt ornamental border, flat spine with gilt lozenges in compartments, lacking upper label and half of the lower label, gilt dentelle inside, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Collation: 1
st and last leaves blank, [1]-9
6, total 54 leaves and 9 engraved plates, incl. frontispiece.
Pagination: [1-5] 6-106 [2] (notice), total 108 pages, ils.
Illustrations:
(1)
Frontispiece bust portrait of Jean-Baptiste Gail in two states, one proof before letters signed
Le Barbier del., — C. S. Gaucher inc. a. ƒ., the other in finished state lettered « J. B. Gail |
Professeur de littérature grecque |
au collège de France » signed
Le Barbier del. —
C. S. Gaucher incid.
(2)
Le tombeau d’Adonis in two states, the first unsigned, the second signed by Le Barbier and Gaucher in Greek
Λε Βαρβιερ εγραφε —
Γαυχερ εχαλχενε, with tissue guard.
(3)
Enlèvement d’Europe in two states, the first signed
Baquoy fecit., the second
Le Barbier inv. —
Delignon Sculp.
(4)
Amour du fleuve Alphée pour la fontaine Aréthuse in two states, the first unsigned, the second signed
Le Barbier inv. —
Dambrun.
(5)
Daphnis et Naïs only in final state signed by Le Barbier and Gaucher in Greek
Λε Βαρβιερ εγρφε —
Γαυχερ εχαλχενε. (sic.)
Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-DeRicci 151-2, attributes to 1895, in-18,
Daphnis et Naïs without the proof state; Lewine 64, "very scarce, particularly that of the portrait, a fancy price".
Contributors:
Bion [Βίων] (fl. late 2
nd century BCE, Phlossa near Smyrna) – author.
Moschus [Μόσχος] (fl. mid 2
nd century BCE, Syracuse) – author.
Jean-Baptiste Gail (French, 1755 – 1829) – translator.
Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (French, 1738 – 1826) – artist.
Charles-Étienne Gaucher (French, 1740 – 1804) – engraver.
Jean-Louis Delignon (French, 1755 – 1820) – engraver.
Jean Dambrun (1741 – 1808/14) – engraver.
Pierre François Didot, Le Jeune (French, 1732 – 1795) – publisher.
NEWHardcover, 197 x 135 mm, light-blue cloth with blind design elements, brown lettering to spine; collated 8vo: i-ii8 1-198 206, i.e. 174 leaves; pp.: [i-vi] vii-xxxi [xxxii], [2] 3-314 [2], plus three-colour woodcut frontispiece before [1], errata slip tipped in at the back; QC slip and reader’s feedback slips laid in. Cream dust jacket with red lettering and a brown vignette woodcut to front, woodcut head- and endpieces. Title-page (red and black): ГРЕЧЕСКИЕ | ЭПИГРАММЫ | Перевод, | статья и примечания | Л. В. Блуменау | Редакция и дополнения | Ф. А. Петровского | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Opposite t.p. (red and black): АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ГРЕЧЕСКИЕ ЭПИГРАММЫ | (VII век до н. э. — IX век н. э.) | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || T.p. verso (imprint): Фронтиспис, заставки, концовки, | переплет и супер-обложка | Г. А. Ечеистова || Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 718, p. 260-1. Contributors: Петровский, Фёдор Александрович (Russian, 1890 –1978) – editor Блюменау, Леонид Васильевич (Russian, 1862 – 1931) – translator Ечеистов, Георгий Александрович (Russian, 1897 – 1946) – artist
Title-page: IDYLLES | DE BION | ET | DE MOSCHUS, | TRADUITES EN FRANÇAIS | Par J. B. Gail, Professeur de littéra- | ture grecque au collège de France. | Ouvrage orné de Figures dessinées par le Barbier. | DE L’IMPRIMERIE DE DIDOT JEUNE. | A PARIS, | Chez Gail, au Collège de France, place | Cambrai. | L’AN TROISIEME. || Small volume in-12mo, 14.7 x 10 cm, bound in tree calf with gilt ornamental border, flat spine with gilt lozenges in compartments, lacking upper label and half of the lower label, gilt dentelle inside, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Collation: 1st and last leaves blank, [1]-96, total 54 leaves and 9 engraved plates, incl. frontispiece. Pagination: [1-5] 6-106 [2] (notice), total 108 pages, ils. Illustrations: (1) Frontispiece bust portrait of Jean-Baptiste Gail in two states, one proof before letters signed Le Barbier del., — C. S. Gaucher inc. a. ƒ., the other in finished state lettered « J. B. Gail | Professeur de littérature grecque | au collège de France » signed Le Barbier del. — C. S. Gaucher incid. (2) Le tombeau d’Adonis in two states, the first unsigned, the second signed by Le Barbier and Gaucher in Greek Λε Βαρβιερ εγραφε — Γαυχερ εχαλχενε, with tissue guard. (3) Enlèvement d’Europe in two states, the first signed Baquoy fecit., the second Le Barbier inv. — Delignon Sculp. (4) Amour du fleuve Alphée pour la fontaine Aréthuse in two states, the first unsigned, the second signed Le Barbier inv. — Dambrun. (5) Daphnis et Naïs only in final state signed by Le Barbier and Gaucher in Greek Λε Βαρβιερ εγρφε — Γαυχερ εχαλχενε. (sic.) Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-DeRicci 151-2, attributes to 1895, in-18, Daphnis et Naïs without the proof state; Lewine 64, "very scarce, particularly that of the portrait, a fancy price". Contributors: Bion [Βίων] (fl. late 2nd century BCE, Phlossa near Smyrna) – author. Moschus [Μόσχος] (fl. mid 2nd century BCE, Syracuse) – author. Jean-Baptiste Gail (French, 1755 – 1829) – translator. Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (French, 1738 – 1826) – artist. Charles-Étienne Gaucher (French, 1740 – 1804) – engraver. Jean-Louis Delignon (French, 1755 – 1820) – engraver. Jean Dambrun (1741 – 1808/14) – engraver. Pierre François Didot, Le Jeune (French, 1732 – 1795) – publisher.![Война мышей и лягушек. Батрахомиомахия / Пер. с древнегреческого, вводн. стат. и коммент. М.С.Альтмана. Иллюстр. А. И. Порет, переплет и обложка по ее же рисункам. С суперобложкой. — М.-Л.: Academia, 1936. — XV, [I], 21, [2] стр. (Античная литература под общей ред. Д. А. Горбова и В. О. Нилендера.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-0985.2016-a-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
Description: white paper hardcover, lettered to front, 25.8 x 18 cm, in pictorial dust jacket; pagination: [i-vi] vii-xv [xvi] [2] 3-21 [3], errata slip bound in; one folding plate bound in after p.8. Title-page: ВОЙНА | МЫШЕЙ И ЛЯГУШЕК | (БАТРАХОМИОМАХИЯ) | Перевод с древнегреческого, | вводная статья | и комментарии | М. С. АЛЬТМАНА | ACADEMIA | 1936 || Opposite title: АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | под общей редакцией | Д. А. ГОРБОВА И В. О. НИЛЕНДЕРА | БАТРАХОМИОМАХИЯ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΊΑ | Иллюстрация А. И. Порет | Переплет и суперобложка | по ее же рисункам || Print run: 10,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова № 798, p. 274. Contributors: Альтман, Моисей Семёнович (Russian-Jewish, 1896—1986) – translator, author Порет, Алиса Ивановна (Russian, 1902 – 1984) – artist.
