Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses.

Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses. First Edition of Translation..

Author: Fenelon, Francois and John Hawkesworth (Trans.)

4to.( 9.125" x 11") 1768. Fenelon, Francois and John Hawkesworth (Trans.). London: W. and W. Strahan. Re-cased with original boards and spine leather. Full brown calf with fancy gilt rule to cover edges. Spine with six gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title on gilt framed red leather to second compartment, heavy gilt floral framed gilt devices to each other compartment. Marbled endpapers, all edges yellowed. Corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped with small loss at foot (see pic). Covers with old scrapes re-dyed but evident. Large scrape to bottom of front cover with gilt rule expertly redone. In addition to in-text engravings, including tailpieces and headpieces, there are numerous full page plates for which the engraving has been trimmed and then mounted on a full leaf. All pages are laid paper. Includes a lengthy list of subscribers toward the front of the book following Hawkesworth's letter to Earl of Shelburne.

From Wiki: François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (French: [də la mɔt fenəlɔ̃]), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699. John Hawkesworth LLD (c. 1715 – 16 November 1773) was an English writer and book editor, born in London. He is said to have been clerk to an attorney, and was certainly self-educated. In 1744, he succeeded Samuel Johnson as compiler of the parliamentary debates for the Gentleman's Magazine, and from 1741 to 1749 he contributed poems signed Greville, or H Greville, to that journal. In company with Johnson and others he started a periodical called The Adventurer, which ran to 140 issues, of which 70 were from the pen of Hawkesworth himself.

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