Narcisse Dans L'Isle De Venus Poeme En quatre Chanta. Paris: De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Ballard, 1769.
-------------------
A beautifully illustrated book, the first edition of Malfilatre's Narcisse, celebrated for "the gift of imagery, sense of rhythm, and limpidity of style" (Grente, Dictionnaire des lettres). This first edition includes the engraved title by de Ghendt after Eisen and the four finely engraved plates by Massard after St. Aubin.
-------------------
Size: 164 x 240 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(1), h.t., t.p., (iii)-x, 112pp., (1)]
Modern hardback with laid down tooled morocco label placed horizontally to spine. Binding in near fine condition. Bookseller ticket to head of front pastedown of Ernest Thorin, 7 Rue de Medicis, Paris. Collates as complete. Very clean throughout the text block. Leaves uncut and thus with inconsistent size, as printed. Includes the four plates and engraved title. A lovely copy in a modern binding.
