Author: Francois Fenelon; John Hawkesworth [ed]
Title: The Adventures of Telemachus
Description: London, Willoughby and Co, 1841 . Cloth. A scarce mid nineteenth century edition of Hawkesworth's translation of Fenelon's classic didactic novel about Telemachus, the son of Ulysses. First published anonymously in France in 1699, and first translated by Hawkesworth in 1768, Fenelon's didactic novel fills in a missing part of the plot of Homer's 'Odyssey', recounting the educational adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, as he is accompanied by his tutor, the goddess Minerva in disguise.The novel proved unpopular with the French royalty upon its publication, as Louis XIV believed that it criticised his reign, which at the time was rife with war, taxes, and famine of the peasantry.With an engraved frontispiece and title page, and numerous vignette illustrations throughout. The portrait frontispiece has been neatly hand-coloured by a prior owner.Undated; dated 1941 via Jisc.With eight pages of advertisements to the rear.A scarce edition of this mythological tale. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Front free endpaper to page viii detached and loosely inserted, otherwise firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters, but otherwise bright. Frontispiece hand coloured by a prior owner. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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