Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe

Les Aventures de Télémaque. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Monseiur, 1785



2 volumes, 4to (12 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.; 326 x 232 mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait, additional engraved title-page (with imprint dated 1773) by Montulay, 72 engraved plates by Tilliard after Charles Monnet, 24 engraved summaries; some marginal spotting and occasional light browning. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco,  gilt roll-tooled banners and rules in the border with leafy bowers, spines gilt, edges gilt; a few small scuff marks and stains in covers, extremities chipped with some mending.

Mary Scott Townshend  of Washington, DC (armorial bookplate)

Cohen-de-Ricci 384-386; Ray, French 37

some marginal spotting and occasional light browning. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt roll-tooled banners and rules in the border with leafy bowers, spines gilt, edges gilt; a few small scuff marks and stains in covers, extremities chipped.
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"Monnet's most ambitious effort as an illustrator " (Ray). The designs were engraved by 1773, but not published by Tilliard until 1783.