Beschreibung:

28,5 : 23 cm. 122 pages with 16 coloured, mounted plates by Jean A. Mercier. Original-wrappers in original illustrated slip-case.

Bemerkung:

Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, choix de seize fables, illus. Jean A. Mercier, tr. l'Abbé Banier [Paris, 1946] - enus and Adonis Latona Turns Peasants to Frogs Salmacis and Hermaphroditus Narcissus Changed into a Flower Theseus and the Minotaur Galatea and Polyphemus Pygmalion in Love with a Statue Icarus, his Fall Atalanta and the Golden Apples Syrinx Changed into a Reed Pyramus and Thisbe Daphne Changed into a Laurel Cyparissus Changed into a Cypress Europa, her Rape Perseus and Andromeda Actaeon - Nummeriertes Exemplar mit den lieblichen Illustrationen von Mercier.