FÉNELON. THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMAQUE, son of Ulysses. Printe - Lot 184

FÉNELON. THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMAQUE, son of Ulysses. Printed by order of the King for the education of Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris, Imprimerie de Franç. Ambr. Didot laîné, 1783. 2 volumes in-4°, red morocco, gilded fillets framing the covers, ornate ribbed spines, interior roulette, gilded edges (19th century binding). Beautiful edition, luxuriously printed by Pierre Didot and limited to 200 copies. One of only a few copies containing the engraved frontispiece, 70 (of 72) engraved plates based on drawings by Charles Monnet, peintre du roy, by Jean Baptiste Tilliard, and 24 culs-de-lamp decorating the summaries. Enriched with a handwritten ex-dono from Madame Fétremont de Valay, née de Salignac la Mothe Fénelon, to her goddaughter Madame Brabaud (Brunet II, 1215) (Cohen, 203). Serious wetness in volume I, bindings spotted.