Florentin Delaulne

First complete edition.

It is illustrated with two frontispieces, twenty-four full-page engravings, and a folding map of Telemachus's travels. The portrait of Fénelon serving as frontispiece to the first volume is signed Baillieul and Duflos; the second frontispiece, together with the plates, is signed Bonnart fils and Giffart, while the map is drawn by Rousset and engraved by Berey. A few head-pieces, bandeaux, and ornamental initials. 

 

Bindings in full red morocco signed Chambolle-Duru, richly decorated covers, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt panels and fleurons between the bands, author, title, volume number, place and date lettered in gilt on the spines, doublures in...

First edition comprising the first 10 volumes published in 1719 and the five volumes of supplements subsequently published in 1724, all complete with plates (see Cohen 731-732).

The illustration, as remarkable as it is abundant, comprises a magnificent frontispiece signed by Sébastien Le Clerc representing the authors of Antiquity in front of the forecourt of a grandiose monument, skillfully put into perspective; a portrait of the dedicatee, Count Victor-Marie d'Estrées, painted by...