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Le Temple de Gnide. Poëme, imité de Montesquieu... Nouvelle édition...augmentée de L'Amour vengé.

Illustrated by: Claude-Louis Desrais (French, 1746–1816)
Engraved by: Martin de Monchy (French, born in 1746)
Engraved by: Gérard René Levillain (French, 1740–1836)
Engraved by: Charles Emmanuel Jean Baptiste Patas (French, 1744–1802)
Author: Nicolas-Germain Léonard (French, 1744–1793)
Publisher: Dufour (Firm) (18th century)
1773
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 11 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall: 21.9 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm (8 5/8 x 5 13/16 x 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1472
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Dufour, 1773

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 622-23
Description(Paris: Dufour, 1773) Quarto; 30 leaves, plus 11 plates; nineteenth[?]-century gilt-stamped half brown calf, marbled paper boards.

Pastoral literary illustrations.
ProvenanceJoseph Knight F.S.A. (bookplate); acquired in 1907 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.