Apollon et les Muses.

4to: 34 pp.; 10 engr. pl. (some worming at lower margin up to p. 14).

Contemp. calf, boards with double gilt borders, gilt flat spine, burgundy morocco label with gilt title, gilt inside dentelles (spine much rubbed, joint cracked, with some loss at head and tail).

Collection of beautiful engr. of Apollo and the 9 Muses of the ancient Greeks. Works like this one were sold in France in the 18th to early 20th c. often in combination with a calendar, which may explain the absence of a true title page (only a simple letterpress-title, resembling a half-title). Subjects varied, e.g. on flowers, on being a lady, on famous contemporaries, poetry, etc., but the gods of the ancient Greeks and Romans were a fashionable subject too. The engr., by Chaponnier, after drawings by Louis Lafitte, are beautiful. Apollo and the 9 muses are described extensively in the text, and one or more poems are added to each.