Longus
Marc Chagall: Daphnis and Chloe.
Munich: Prestel, 1994. Pegasus Library. First edition. 3791313738 150 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in black paper-covered spine and boards, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Illustrated with 42 color plates after the lithographs by Marc Chagall. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"In 1831 Goethe called Daphnis and Chloe 'a masterpiece ... in which Understanding, Art, and Taste appear at their highest point, and beside which the good Virgil retreats somewhat into the background ... One would do well to read it every year, to be instructed by it again and again, and to receive anew the impression of its great beauty. 'Touching yet humorous, naive and at the same time highly sophisticated, Daphnis and Chloe is the story of a shepherd boy and girl who fall desperately in love yet find themselves facing great obstacles, because in their passion they behave, as the author says, even more awkwardly 'than rams and ewes.'"