The adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, &c. in Greece, and one of the princes who conducted the Seige of Troy : complete in twenty-four books : originally written in French, not only for the use and instruction of the Dauphin of France, to guard him, in an allegorical way, against forming his conduct after the bad example of his grandfather Lous XIV, but also to promote the happiness of mankind in general / by Francis Salignac de La Motte Fenelon ... ; now newly translated from the best Paris and other editions, by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. ... ; to which are added, the life of the original author, the heads and arguments of each book at large, and a great variety of notes ... calculated to gratify every class of readers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.

Contributor:

Melmoth, William, 1710?-1799.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Aventures de Télémaque. English

Language:

English

French

Penn Provenance:

Penniman, James H. (Donor)

Physical Description:

327 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed only for Alex. Hogg ... and sold by all booksellers in Great Britain, Ireland, France, America, East and West Indies, &c. &c., [1770?]

Notes:

Translation of: Les aventures de Télémaque / François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon.

Date of publication taken from BM.

Includes index.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) T153155

OCLC:

16110822