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LONGUS
Georg & Cie Paris
1923
Limited edition of 500 copies exemplaire no 138
Stamped / bound by: Yseux Sr. …
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LONGUS
Georg & Cie Paris
1923
Limited edition of 500 copies exemplaire no 138
Stamped / bound by: Yseux Sr. de Thierry-Simier
The bookplate to the front pastedown indicates this book once belonged to Lady Marie Louise Maxwell-Scott. Lady Marie was the second wife of Major General Sir Walter Maxwell-Scott, a descendant of the Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet Walter Scott. They lived at Abbotsford, the Scott family home.
9 1/2" x 7"
Daphnis and Chloe is a Greek pastoral novel written during the Roman Empire, the only known work of second-century Hellenistic romance writer Longus.
It is set on the Greek isle of Lesbos, where scholars assume the author to have lived. Its style is rhetorical and pastoral; its shepherds and shepherdesses are wholly conventional, but the author imparts human interest to this idealized world. Daphnis and Chloe resembles a modern novel more than does its chief rival among Greek erotic romances, the Aethiopica of Heliodorus, which is remarkable more for its plot than for its characterization.
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- Dimensions
- 7ʺW × 1ʺD × 9.5ʺH
- Styles
- Traditional
- Period
- 1920s
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Green
- Condition Notes
- Very good/ No jacket Very good/ No jacket less
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