Author: FENELON (Francois de Salignac de la Mothe):
Title: Les Avantures de Telemaque, Fils d'Ulysse. Par seu Messire Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon.... Nouvelle Edition, Conforme au Manuscrit Original, Et enrichie de Figures en taille-douce.
Description: A Amsterdam Chez J. Wetstein & G. Smith.... A Rotterdam, Chez Jean Hofhout, 1734. Large 4to, 282 x 218 mms., pp. [ii], x, xxvii [xxviii printer's ornament], 424, inclujding the suppressed "Ode" on pages 419 to 424 title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece by Picart after Folkéma, engraved portrait of Fenelon before first page of text, spectacularly illustrated with 25 full-page engraved plates, 24 engraved head-pieces by Bernaerts, Folkéma, V. Gunst and Surugue after Debrie, Dubourg and Picart, 22 engraved tail-pieces by Duflos and Schenk after Debrie and Dubourg, sumptuously bound in 19th century hard-grain red morocco, three gilt rules as borders on each cover, spine richly gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; some very slight wear to extremities of binding, but really a fine copy. The first Dutch editon of the Adventures of Telemachus was published in 1699. It was partially translated into English in 1699, and Tobias Smollett translated it again in 1776. Cohen-de Ricci 381-82; Ray 1; Brunet II, 1214; Graesse II, 564. The work was also printed in a folio format.

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