Le Berger Fidele

Brusselles: Jean de Smedt, 1705. Very Good-. Brusselles: Chez Jean de Smedt, a la Conversion de St. Augustin, 1705. 16mo (13cm.); full contemporary roan, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges red, marbled endpapers; [16],471,[1]pp.; engraved frontispiece and five full-page illus. signed in text by Jacobus Harrewyn. Leather rather worn and dried with shallow losses at spine ends, rear free flyleaf and endpaper torn with loss, brief biopredation to bottom margin of final leaf of text slightly affecting text, contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf, else a Good to Very Good example.

Bilingual edition of the Italian author's oft-reprinted tragicomic poem set in Arcadia, nicely illustrated with bucolic scenes by the Dutch engraver Jacobus Harrewyn (1660-1727).