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Les avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulisse / par feu Messire François de Salignac de la Motte Fénélon.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ1795 .T5 1738 t.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
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Telemachus (Mythological character)--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Telemachus.
- Voyages, Imaginary--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Penn Provenance:
- Saffan, M. (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Pallottines (Thurles, Ireland) (stamp) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Distribution:
- A Londres : Chez R. Dodsley ..., MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
- Fingerprint:
- uig- b-le n-u- seil (3) 1738 (R) v.1
- u-s, i-as dee- poj' (3) 1738 (R) v.2
- Notes:
- Each of the 24 books has a section-title, with summary on verso and a leaf of plates.
- With the "Discours de la poésie epique et de l'excellence du poème de Telemaque" by Ramsay.
- Signatures: volume 1: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ B-U⁸ (leaf U8 blank) ; volume 2: pi² A-S⁸ T⁴ (leaves pi1 and T4 are blanks).
- Pagination: volume 1: xl, 301, [3] pages, [14] leaves of plates ; volume 2: [4], 294, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates.
- Engraved illustrations (plates).
- Woodcut title ornaments and initial.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Fonsie Mealy.
- Kislak Center copy: each volume has autograph ("M. Saffan") in blue ink on blank leaf following front free endpaper; each volume has oval stamp ("Pallottine Novitiate * Cabra, Thurles *" around a cross surrounded by the letters AMDG) of the Pallottine congregation of Cabra, Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center copy: each volume bound in early speckled calf(?); gold-tooled cover edges; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title stamped in gold on spine; gold-stamped green leather spine label with volume number (that of volume 1 damaged); marbled endpapers.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T132764
- OCLC:
- 24937170
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