Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse / par feu Messíre de Salignac de la Motte Fenelon etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Volpato, Giovanni, 1735-1803, engraver.

Ramsay, Chevalier (Andrew Michael), 1686-1743, attributed writer of introduction.

Chez Guillaume Zerletti, publisher.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Telemachus (Greek mythology)--Juvenile literature.

Telemachus (Greek mythology).

Telemachus (Mythological character).

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Alexander, John W., Jr. (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, folded map, genealogical table ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Nouvelle édition / enrichie de figures en taille-douce et de notes historiques, politiques et morales.

Place of Publication:

A Venise : Chez Guillaume Zerletti, 1768.

Notes:

Pagination: tome premier: XLVIII, 272 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (one folded); tome second: 262 pages.

Frontispiece by Volpato, title vignettes, initial and headpiece on dedicatory page, half page engravings at head of each book.

Preceded by "Discours de la poesie epique et de l'excellence du poeme de Telemaque" by Mr. de Ramsay (Tome premier, VII-XLVIII), probably Chevalier Ramsay, a Scottish-born writer who spent most of his life in France and who edited a 1717 version of Télémaque published in Paris

Includes bibliographical references and indexes (alphabetical "Table des matières").

Followed by an ode by the author.

Text includes footnotes with comments by an unidentified author.--Confer Avertissement, page V.

Local Notes:

Kislak Rare copy has 2 volumes in one.

Cited in:

Quérard, tome 3, page 92

OCLC:

18734847