ROMANTIC ILLUSTRATED: Victor ADAM FÉNELON, Télémaque, period leather

  
FÉNELON (François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, dit). The Adventures of Telemachus, followed by the Adventures of Aristonou?s, by Fénelon; adorned with steel engravings drawn by Victor Adam. In-8° (206 x 128 mm). Aubergine morocco with long grain, golden frame fillet, blind-stamped frame garland, decorated smooth spine, golden title, golden lines on the head caps and at the corners of the boards, inner golden roulette, marbled paper doublures and endpapers imitating moiré, gilt edges (contemporary binding).

Announced in the Bibliographie de la France on January 6, 1837 for 6 francs, this edition, probably published at the end of 1836, has not been listed by Brivois, Vicaire, and Carteret. At the end of the volume: Historical, geographical, and mythological vocabulary of all the men, all the places, and all the fabulous deities mentioned in Telemachus and in the Adventures of Aristonou? This index was compiled by Mathieu Guesde. The work is illustrated with 6 plates (including 1 sometimes placed as a frontispiece) engraved in intaglio after compositions by Victor Adam.

There are also woodcut ornaments (headbands, initials, and tailpieces) some of which are designed by Victor Coindre, Louis Français, Alcide-Joseph Lorentz, and Louis Steinheil. Single print run of the plates.

Some unsigned woodcut ornaments are polytypes. Very nice copy, bound in contemporary aubergine morocco.