BINDING - OVID (43 BC - 17 AD). Epistole Eroiche.

BINDING - OVID (43 BC - 17 AD). Epistole Eroiche … Tradotte da Remigio Fiorentino. Paris: Appresso Durand, 1762. 8vo (197 x 128mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the translator, engraved architectural title, 22 engraved illustrations and 8 culs-de-lampe by Carlo Gregori after Giuseppe Zocchi (some intermittent light browning and spotting). FINELY BOUND BY ANTOINE MICHEL PADELOUP OR PADELOUP LE JEUNE in contemporary tan morocco gilt with red and brown morocco onlays including a large central starburst on each cover with a cut-out revealing a painted metal plaque of a coloured coat-of-arms on the upper cover and an unidentified monogram on the lower cover, the spine with red morocco lettering-piece and red morocco onlays in the compartments, blue watered silk liners, gilt edges ([?]skillfully rebacked some time ago, some very light rubbing). The binder's small printed label reading "Relié par Padeloup le jeune, place Sorbonne a Paris" is pasted at the foot of the title. A printed note, pasted onto the front free endpaper, reads: "Ce livre a figuré à l' exposition 'Dix Siècles de Livres français' (Lucerne, 9 juillet-2 octobre 1949) sous le no. 383 du catalogue." Beneath it is a small unidentified label.