LES AMOURS DISMENE ET DISMENIAS, suivis de ceux dAbrocome et dAnthia, A Genève, M. DCC. LXXXII. (1782). In-16, [4]+272 pp., with engraved title vignette and frontispiece entitled, “Ismene et Ismenias”, by C. P. Marillier and N. Delaunay. The first edition of this translation given by Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps (1689-1761) appeared in 1729; it was taken up again in 1743. Despite the character of adaptation that it presents, it advantageously replaced the first versions in French. But the author of this romance novel in the genre of Late Antiquity is an almost unknown 12th-century Byzantine writer, Eustathius Macrembolites, who has long been confused with Eustathius of Thessalonica. This History of Hysmine and Hysminias has the particularity of being written in prose, and enjoyed great success. As for the Loves of Abrocoma and Anthia, this is the other title of the Ephesiacs, a novel by Xenophon of Ephesus, or Xenophon the Younger, whose dates are not well established (2nd or 3rd century AD). time). Contemporary full calfskin, visibly chipped and worn, handwritten title label on spine. Untrimmed inside, rather tight and clean. Nice & Uncommon copy. Cioranescu, XVIII, 31381. See Brunet II, 1113-1114.