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FENELON, François de.

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FENELON, François de.
The adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses. Engraved after the designs of Charles Monnet, painter to the King, by Jean Baptiste Tillard.

Paris : chez l'Auteur et Debure, 1773.

In-folio, engraved title, (24) leaves of engraved text inscribed in ornamental frames, 71 captioned plates (of 72). Modern burgundy pastiche basane, spine ornamented with cold-engraved and gold frames and aldins spandrels. Engraved heraldic bookplate: Earl of Clancarty.

First edition of this famous suite, engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard after the drawings of Charles Monnet, which had been exhibited at the Salon of 1771 under the title of Sujets tirés de Télémaque.

Cohen 384.

(Margins a bit foxed, with occasional small foxing| Missing plate I of book VII).