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FENELON, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715). Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse . Imprimé par ordre du roi pour l'education de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris: Ambroise Didot l'ainé, 1783. 2 volumes, 4° (302 x 222mm). 72 engraved plates by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard after Charles Monnet Contemporary red morocco gilt, sides decorated with triple fillets and fleurons in corners, spine with raised bands in six compartments, 4 decorated with floral tools, two with olive morocco lettering pieces, inner dentelles, blue silk doublures and liners, edges gilt. Provenance : Hon. James Butler (bookplate); André Langlois (leather label). Edition limited to 200 copies on papier vélin . The plates were issued separately about ten years after the edition was printed and are not always present. This copy does not have the additional two frontispieces and the culs-de-lampe, which are often lacking. Cohen-de Ricci 384; Sander 663.