Lot 08046

FÉNELON FRANÇOIS De Salygnac De La Motthe, “LES AVENTURES DE TELEMAQUE, Fils D’Ulysse avec des notes et vingt-cinq figures en taille douce”, a Paris, chez Ancelle, 1798. 2 Volume Set (COMPLETE), in 12mo, p. xxxii,392 + 363,[1].

Edition illustrated with frontispiece and 12 full page plates out of text, at the beginning of each chapter (total of 26 engravings). At the crossroads of the learning novel (for royal pupils) and the anti-absolutist political manifesto, the “Adventures of Telemachus” is an adventure novel, first published in 1699, that brought about both Fénelons disgrace at court and his immediate and subsequent celebrity. Text in French.

Blue leathered carton covers of the period, brown leather title label over spine in gilt; exterior rubbed and chipped, cracked hinges, bumped corners. Well-preserved paper, with some foxing/spotting, very fresh inside pages and illustrations. Complete and Good copy.