Lot 298: FÉNELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715). Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse. Imprimé par ordre du Roi pour l'education de Monseigneur le Dauphin . Paris: Franç. Ambr. Didot l'aîné, 1783.

FÉNELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715). Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse. Imprimé par ordre du Roi pour l'education de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris: Franç. Ambr. Didot l'aîné, 1783.

2 volumes, 4° (295 x 220mm). Titles with engraved arms of the Dauphin. (T1v and T2r of vol. I with offsetting from page marker, light creasing to corners.) Contemporary crimson morocco gilt by Gaudreau, signed on turn-ins, spines with raised bands, two compartments directly lettered, the other four with repeated fleuron and surrounding small tools, triple fillets on sides, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, blue silk markers, gilt edges (spines a little sunfaded and lightly rubbed at extremities, one or two tiny holes). Provenance: A.L. McLaughlin (bookplate; sale Sotheby's Monaco, 7 October 1980, lot 1704).

LIMITED TO 200 COPIES printed with the new types of Didot l'aîné on papier grand raisin vélin d'Annonay made by Matthieu Johannot, this copy in a signed binding by Gaudreau, 'relieur de la Reine'. The present 4to edition of Fenelon's Télémaque was first in the series of classsic French and Latin authors printed in this format for the education of the Dauphin. Brunet II, 1215; Quérard 92. (2)

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