////François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. — Amsterdam: D. J. Changuion, 1775.

François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. — Amsterdam: D. J. Changuion, 1775.

Title-page (in red and black, with tall “s”): LES | AVANTURES | DE | TELEMAQUE, | FILS D’ULYSSE, | Par seu Messire | François de Salignac, | De La Motte-Fenelon, | Precepteur de Messeigneurs les Enfans de | France, & depuis Archevêque-Duc de | Cambray, Prince du Saint Empire. | NOUVELLE EDITION, | CONFORME AU MANUSCRIT ORIGINAL, ET | ENRICHIE DE FIGURES. | {device} | A AMSTERDAM, | Chez D. J. CHANGUION. | MDCCXXV. ||

Pagination: fep, 1 bank leaves, frontis., [ii] title, [iii] iv-cvi, [1] 2-490 2 blank leaves, fep, total 496 pages.

Collation: 12mo; 1*-4*12 5*5, A-V12 X8 (total 248 leaves) plus frontispiece and 9 plates designed and engraved by Simon Fokke (signed: “S. Fokke in et fec 1753”), and folding map (not signed).

Binding: Red quarter roan over contemporary marbled vellum, only top margin trimmed.

Edition: 2nd edition with these etchings after the 1st by Jan Daniel Beman in Rotterdam in 1755 (see British Museum 1887,0722.88 and 1887,0722.90 and others.)

Catalogue raisonné: Not in Cohen-DeRicci, not in Lewine.

Contributors:

François Fénelon [François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon]  (French, 1651 – 1715) – author.

Simon Fokke (Dutch, 1712 – 1784) – artist, engarver.

 

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