- FLORIAN (Louis-Pierre Claris de). Galatea, pastoral novel; imitated from Cervantes. Paris, Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1783, in-18, 198 pp, with 7 engraved plates hors-texte (including a frontispiece, the dedication to the duchess of Chartres surmounted by her arms, a portrait of Cervantes and 4 vignettes by Guyard after Flouest, for the text), green morocco, smooth spine decorated with double gilt caissons, CS figure pushed into an inter-nerve, triple gilt fillet on the boards, single gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges, endpapers lined with pink paper. Bound in contemporary style (one lower corner damaged). First edition of this imitation of the homonymous novel by Cervantes (La Galatea, 1585), which constitutes the first novel by Florian (1755-1794) and which was a huge success (cf. other editions and translations, from 1784 to 1840 in Rius). Rius, 544. Cioranescu, XVIII, 28773. Cohen, 399.