MONTESQUIEU / Le temple de Gnide, suivi d'Arsace et Isménie.

PEYRON. MONTESQUIEU
Le temple de Gnide, followed by Arsace et Isménie. À Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, l'an IV - 1796. Large in-4, [2] f., 165 p., [1] blank f., fr., pl., contemporary basane racinée, smooth ornate spine, havana title-piece, boards edged with gilt fillet and roulette, gilt roulette to spines and chasses, gilt edges, spine and corners restored (some rubbing to spines and spines, one lower hinge split, brown spots).
inf. split, freckles).
An edition of great perfection, composed with the new type engraved and cast by Firmin Didot. The edition was limited to 100 copies, and the plates were destroyed after printing.
A frontispiece portrait engraved by P.A. Tardieu after Chaudet| 7 color plates after Peyron| 10 engraved plates after Peyron, Perrin and Vernet. Text and plates printed on wove paper.
Copy enriched with a portrait of Montesquieu engraved on copper by Alexandre Tardieu after Chaudet and dated 1796, and 10 plates engraved by Née, Patas, Le Mire, de Ghendt, Langlois, after Peyron, Perrin and Vernet. The portrait and plates are from the Paris edition of Oeuvres de Montesquieu,
Plassan, an IV (Cohen 731).
(Cohen 730).