$1,968
Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715) Les Aventures de Telemaque , Illustrated with Jean Baptiste Tilliard's (1740-1813) Engravings after Charles Monnet (1732-1808) . Paris: Chez l'Auteur [Didot], 1785. Two large quarto volumes, illustrated with an engraved title in volume one, twenty-four engraved full-paged chapter heads with border, text, and image; and seventy-two full-paged illustrations (three for each chapter), bound in full contemporary mottled and sponge-decorated green and tan calfskin, gilt spines, red and green labels on each spine, a.e.g., marbled end leaves, somewhat dry, joints split, head caps chipped. (2) This work is considered to be one of the best illustrated French books of its period.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
