LONGUS. The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe. Paris], 1745. - Small in-4, 197 x 143 : frontispiece, (6 ff. first blank), 159, xx pp. 29 plates. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet and gilt fleuron on the corners of the boards, spine gilt, inner gilt border, gilt edges (period binding). Cohen, 652. reprint of the 1718 edition, with the same illustrations composed of a frontispiece engraved by Audran after Coypel, and 28 plates engraved by Audran after the paintings made by the regent Philippe d'Orléans. There is also the figure of the "petits pieds" attributed to the comte de Caylus and engraved for the first time in 1728, as well as a vignette on the title, 4 beautiful unsigned headbands and 4 nice culs-de-lampe by Cochin in the first edition. One of the rare copies on large paper reprinted in small in-4 format, in full contemporary morocco, very well preserved. It comes from the library of Merlin d'Estreux de Beaugrenier. Provenance: Merlin d'Estreux de Beaugrenier, with armorial bookplate engraved by Stern.