Shelfmark
Gn.3.16
Author
Uniform title
[Les aventures de Télémaque]
Title
Les avantures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse. Composées par seu Messire François de Salignac, de La Motte Fenelon, precepteur de Messeigneurs les Enfans de France. Et depuis archevêque-duc de Cambray, Prince du Saint-Empire.
Edition
Nouvelle edition. augmentée & corrigée sur le manuscrit original de l'auteur.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Rotterdam, : Chez Jean Hofhout., M. DCCXVII. [1717]
Physical description
[6], LXVII, [18], 266, [12], 269-525, [24] p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 12mo.
Note
Title pages in red and black.
Note
Additional engraved t.p.
Note
Woodcut initials; head- and tail-pieces.
Note
Engraved illustrations throughout volume, together with map of Telemaque's voyage around the Mediterranean.
Note
With added t.p. to 'tome second' following p. 266.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Robert Ingram, with an additional label: 'presented by R. H. W. Ingram Esq.'.
Provenance
Ownership inscription: Hugh Roberts.
Binding
Contemporary light brown sprinkled calf; gold tooled decorative roll on board edges; gold tooled single fillet on spine; traces of old spine label with gold tooling, now detached.
Copy-specific note
Avertissement signed by Jean Hofhout.
Subject
Telemachus (Greek mythology) Fiction.
Added entry--name
Hofhout, Jean printer.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Rotterdam.
Identifier
B28729