Les Jeux de Calliope, or Collection de Poemes Anglais, Italiens, Allemends et Espagnols, en deux, trois & quatre chants. [Translated by J.F. Peyron.]

Jeux de Calliope.

Verlag: Large paper copy, 8vo, 23 X 17cm, 176p, 4 plates, A Londres [i.e. Paris], et a Paris, chez Rualt, Libraire, 1776.

Beschreibung

Illustrated with 4 fine copper-engraved plates by Esprit-Antoine Gibelin, engraved by Marchand. Contemporary full blue crushed morocco with five raised bands, gilt spine titling, boards blocked in gilt, gilt top, inner dentelles finely gilt, marbled endpapers. A few inoffensive private library stamps. A very good copy Contains: "L'e conomie de l'amour, imite de l'anglais du D. Armstrong"; "L'hermite, ou Amintor et The odora. Traduit de l'anglais de Mallet"; "L'amour accuse . Traduit de l'allemand de M. Wieland" French painter, draughtsman, sculptor, medallist and writer. He first trained under Claude Arnulphy at Aix, leaving for Rome c. 1761. He remained in Italy for ten years, studying the works of Raphael and other Old Masters (see fig. ) as well as Polidoro da Caravaggio, whose monochrome frescoes Gibelin later imitated in France. In 1768 he won a prize at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Parma, with his Achilles Fighting. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10257

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Titel: Les Jeux de Calliope, or Collection de ...

Verlag: Large paper copy, 8vo, 23 X 17cm, 176p, 4 plates, A Londres [i.e. Paris], et a Paris, chez Rualt, Libraire, 1776.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition