Author: FENELON, FRANCOISE; [MESSIRE DE SALIGNAC]
Title: Aventures de Telemaque. Edition Collationnee Sur Les Trois Manuscrits Connus a Paris. 2 Volume Set
Description: Paris: E A Lequien, 1820. Reprint. Brown hardback tooled leather cover. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). xxiv, 367pp; 359pp. Frontis portrait and engraved plates with tissueguards. The French literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet calls Telemaque the true key to the museum of the eighteenth century imagination. One of the most popular works of the century, it was an immediate best seller both in France and abroad, going through many editions and translated into every European language and even Latin verse. It inspired numerous imitations, such as the Abbe Jean Terrasson's novel Sethos. It also supplied the plot for Mozart's opera, Idomeneo.. G + : in Good [plus] condition. Edgwear to corners and hinges. Previous owner's inscription on fep. Foxing to prelims and eps. Occasional light foxing elsewhere, impacting on some plates. Marbled edges .

Keywords: Fiction 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian


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