LONGUS [182] pp. Georg & Cie Paris 1923 Limited edition of 500 copies exemplaire no 138 Stamped / bound by: Yseux Sr. de Thierry-Simier The bookplate to the front pastedown indicates this book once belonged to Lady Marie Louise Maxwell-Scott. Lady Marie was the second wife of Major General Sir Walter Maxwell-Scott, a descendant of the Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet Walter Scott. They lived at Abbotsford, the Scott family home. 9 1/2" x 7" VG Scroll Down for (11) Additional Scans: Daphnis and Chloe is a Greek pastoral novel written during the Roman Empire, the only known work of second-century Hellenistic romance writer Longus. It is set on the Greek isle of Lesbos, where scholars assume the author to have lived. Its style is rhetorical and pastoral; its shepherds and shepherdesses are wholly conventional, but the author imparts human interest to this idealized world. Daphnis and Chloe resembles a modern novel more than does its chief rival among Greek erotic romances, the Aethiopica of Heliodorus, which is remarkable more for its plot than for its characterization.
