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The adventures of Telemachus the son of Ulysses / written in French by the late Mr. Francis de Salignac de la Motte Fenelon ... ;translated from the last Paris edition, which is the only genuine, and agreeable to the author's manuscript ... ; done into English by Mr. Is. Littlebury and Mr. A. Boyer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PQ1795.T5 E5 1719 v.1/2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Aventures de Télémaque. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Telemachus (Mythological character)--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Telemachus.
- Princes--Greece--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Princes.
- Education of princes--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Education of princes.
- French fiction--17th century--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.
- French fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hayhurst, Robert J. (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Sadler, Mary (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : portrait ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Distribution:
- London: Printed for William Churchill ..., 1719.
- Fingerprint:
- e-i- sei- leas Foth (3) 1719 (A) v.1
- adnd ryhe ad'd whMe (3) 1719 (A) v.2
- Language Note:
- English translation of the author's Les aventures de Télémaque.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Preface to the last French Paris edition ; Advertisement about this English version / A. Boyer ; An allusion to the Bishop of Cambray's Telemachus. In imitation of Homer : written in the year 1707 / by the late Duke of Devonshire. A discourse upon epick poetry, and the excellence of the poem of Telemachus / [by A.M. Ramsay] ; The adventures of Telemachus : books I-XII
- v. 2. The adventures of Telemachus : books XIII-XXIV ; The adventures of Aristonous.
- Notes:
- Signatures: volume 1: A¹² a⁶ B-N¹² O¹²(-O12) ; volume 2: pi1 A-M¹².
- Pagination: volume 1: xxxvi, 309, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates ; volume 2: [2], 264, [3], 468-487, [1] pages.
- Engraved frontispiece plate (portrait).
- Woodcut initial, factotums, head- and tail-pieces.
- Type ornament factotums, head-pieces and tail-piece.
- Title of volume 1 in red and black.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy bound together in one volume.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has effaced manuscript inscription at head of frontispiece plate.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Antiquates Fine and Rare Books.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has illustrated bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst on front pastedown; partially illegible early autograph ("Mary [...] [overwritten with: Sadler]") at head of title leaf; early autograph ("Mary Sadler") on title leaf.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: volume 1: tail outer corner of leaf E1 torn and partially mended with a blank leaf; leaf N10 torn across central portion.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: volume 2: portion of fore-edge margin of leaf D4 torn off; tail outer corner of leaf F1 torn off with minor loss of text; leaf H3 torn and mended.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N4302
- OCLC:
- 6820156
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