Les avantures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse
By: par Messire François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon ...
Contributors: Fénelon, Gabriel Jacques de Salignac, marquis de la Mothe-, 1688-1746, editor; Cambray, Chevalier de; Ramsay, Chevalier (Andrew Michael), 1686-1743; Vandenhoeck, Abraham, -1750, bookseller; Fritsch, Christian, 1695-1769, engraver; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: Nouvelle edition corrigée; / & enrichie des imitations des anciens pöetes, de nouvelles notes, & de la vie de l'auteur.
Publisher: Chez A. Vandenhoeck, Libraire dans le Strand, vis-à-vis l'Eglise Neuve.
Published: 1731
Place of publication: A Hambourg; & se vend a Londres
Language: fre
Subjects: Telemachus (Greek mythology); Fiction
Work titles: Aventures de Télémaque
Notes: Title pages printed in red and black; engraved title page vignette (depicting Neptune calming the storm, with banner text: "Quos ego! Virg. An. 1.1.") signed "CF sc:"

With additional engraved illustrated title page, signed: "C: Fritzsch sculps: Hamb:"; depicts classical figures (including the muse Calliope and the goddess Minerva) crowning a portrait of the author with laurel leaves.

With woodcut head-pieces and initials.

Illustrated with engraved plates by Fritzch depicting scenes from the novel, and a (folded) engraved map: "Carte des voyages de Telemaque."

Errata to this edition on p. XX; also, "Lacunes qui se trouvant dans le Telémaque in 12.̊ de Hollande 1725" on pp. XXI-XXII, and "Lacunes qui se trouvant dans le Telémaque in 4.̊ de Paris 1730" on pp. XXIII-XXIV.

Includes: "Eloge historique de Monsr. de Fenelon, Archvêque-Duc de Cambray" (p. XXV-L); "Discours sur la poesie epique, & sur l'excellence du poeme de Telemaque" (p. LI-LXXXII; by Andrew Michael Ramsay).

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.

Chiefly in French, with occasional quotation in Latin and Greek.