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FÉNELON (François de Salignac de La Mothe). The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses. Paris, De l'imprimerie de Monsieur, 1785. 2 volumes large in-4, havana Russian leather, spines decorated with gilt fillets, bronze morocco title-pieces, double gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt edges (period binding). Small edition on Annonay vellum paper and decorated with the beautiful suite engraved after the drawings of Charles Monnet, painter of the King, by J. B. Tilliard in 1773. The illustration is composed of 24 engraved plates (intermediate titles decorated with culs-de-lampe) and 72 engraved figures out of text in first edition. Spine worn, one corner dulled, slight scattered foxing, slight traces of wetness in places in volume II. Apart from these minor defects, a fine copy, well bound and with good engravings. (Cohen, 384.) Attached is an interesting autograph letter from the engraver J.B. Tilliard, 29 May 1786, 2 pp. in-8: "Monsieur, je vous fais excuse d'être encore à vous adresser les figures du Télémaque que je vous avais promis pour samedy ou dimanche dernier..." with, following, a detailed estimate for several works: Voyage de Naples, Voyage en Sicile, Voyage de la Grèce (Choiseul Gouffier), Voyage de la France générale et particulière, Voyage de la Suisse et Voyage en Sibérie (Choppe d'Auteroche).
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FÉNELON (François de Salignac de La Mothe). The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses. Paris, De l'imprimerie de Monsieur, 1785. 2 volumes large in-4, havana Russian leather, spines decorated with gilt fillets, bronze morocco title-pieces, double gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt edges (period binding). Small edition on Annonay vellum paper and decorated with the beautiful suite engraved after the drawings of Charles Monnet, painter of the King, by J. B. Tilliard in 1773. The illustration is composed of 24 engraved plates (intermediate titles decorated with culs-de-lampe) and 72 engraved figures out of text in first edition. Spine worn, one corner dulled, slight scattered foxing, slight traces of wetness in places in volume II. Apart from these minor defects, a fine copy, well bound and with good engravings. (Cohen, 384.) Attached is an interesting autograph letter from the engraver J.B. Tilliard, 29 May 1786, 2 pp. in-8: "Monsieur, je vous fais excuse d'être encore à vous adresser les figures du Télémaque que je vous avais promis pour samedy ou dimanche dernier..." with, following, a detailed estimate for several works: Voyage de Naples, Voyage en Sicile, Voyage de la Grèce (Choiseul Gouffier), Voyage de la France générale et particulière, Voyage de la Suisse et Voyage en Sibérie (Choppe d'Auteroche).
