Les Aventures de Telemaque, Fils D'Ulysse
by Fenelon, Francois Salignac de La Mothe
Price: $2,500.00
- Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller
- Seller Inventory #: 232357
- Book condition:
- Publisher: Paris: Didot l'aÓnE, 1796
- Date published: 1796
Book Description
Paris: Didot l'aÓnE, 1796. First edition with these illustrations, one of 200 printed on GRAND PAPIER VELIN. 4 vols., 18mo. Engraved portrait after Vivian engraved by Gaucher, and 24 plates after drawings by Lefebvre engraved by Delvaux, Godefroy, Simonet, Thomas, and TriËre. Full early 20th-century dark brown morocco, richly gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines very slightly faded, otherwise a beautiful set, complete with all half-titles, immaculate text and plates, with the original tissue guards. Cohen: 388-89 ("charmantes figures par Lefebvre")
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