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178512113Paris: Imprim. de Mosieur Didot et al. 1785. Paris Imprim. de Mosieur Didot et al. 1785. 2 volúmenes. En folio. -I: Portadilla frontis grabado portada 2 h. 309 pp. 12 36 láminas. -II: Portadilla portada 297 pp. 12 36 láminas. Magnífica encuadernación francesa en pleno marroquén rojo de época planos enmarcados por dos ruedas doradas de elegante composición lomera con hilos dorados a modo de nervios y grecas doradas en las calles doble hilo dorado en los cantos y rueda dorada en los contracantos cabeza y cortes también dorados. Magnífico ejemplar encuadernado en marroquén de época con rica decoración que contiene en total 72 láminas grabadas por Tilliard sobre dibujos de Monnet 24 sumarios grabados enmarcados por finas viñetas y un frontispicio. Obra clásica de la literatura francesa del siglo XVIII. La primera edición de las Aventuras de Telémaco hijo de Ulyses escrita por Fenelón 1651-1715 fue publicada en 1699 y desde entonces han sido numerosas las ediciones que han aparecido siendo las más apreciadas las impresas en folio en París por Didot. Típico trabajo francés del siglo XVIII realizado con el mayor esmero: el papel los grabados la disposición tipográfica la soberbia encuadernación. todo es excelente. Buen ejemplar amplio de márgenes y generalmente limpio ligeras manchas ocasionales que afectan generalmente a los márgenes de alguna lámina dos o tres láminas algo oscurecidas por lo demás magnífico ejemplar digno de las más importantes bibliotecas. Imprim. de Mosieur [Didot et al.] unknown
1785ABC_49452Paris: l'imprimerie de Monsieur" colophon below advertisement: Pierre François Didot le jeune printer to the future King Louis XVIII who used the title Monsieur from 1774 to 1789 1785. Contemporary gold-tooled dark greenish-brown morocco sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine a red morocco title and volume label on the spine lettered in gold a triple fillet frame on both boards with fleurons in the corners gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins gilt edges marbled endpapers. Super royal 4to. With 98 hand-coloured plates namely two engraved title pages in volume 1 resp. by Augustin de St. Aubin and Montulay 72 illustration plates engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard after drawings by Charles Monnet and 24 engraved plates with summaries of the "books" in decorative frames. Further with an elaborate armorial device incorporating the French royal coat of arms on the title page of each volume. 2 volumes. Deluxe hand-coloured edition of Fénelons popular didactic novel printed with newly designed type by Didot. This is also the first edition to include the 72 beautifully engraved plates drawn by the French painter Charles Monnet or Monet 1732-1808 or later and engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard 1740-1813. The present copy has been luxuriously bound in a neoclassical style by Nicolas-Denis Derome 1731-1790 a renowned bookbinder who was known for the beauty and finesse of his work.Les aventures the Telemaque was originally published anonymously in 1699 because its denunciation of luxury war and selfishness as a matter of principal clearly bore an implied critique of the autocratic rule of King Louis XIV. The author did not remain anonymous for long; François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon mostly known as François Fénelon 1651-1715 was a French Catholic archbishop theologian poet and writer. He was a regular visitor of the royal court at Versailles and for eight years tutor to Louis Duke of Burgundy known as the Petit Dauphin King Louis XIVs grandson. In 1697 however Fénelon was banished to his diocese initially because of a religious dispute and later for writing the present work. Growing dissatisfaction with Louis XVI leading up to the French Revolution made it once again both popular and dangerous though ironically the present edition and others were produced with patronage from members of the royal family.The story of Telemachus and Minerva was meant as a small addition to fill a gap in the chronology of Homer's great epic the Odyssey. While Telemachus the son of Ulysses/Odysseus is in theory the main character the principal focus is actually on "Mentor" or Minerva who teaches him how to rule and how to live life in general with both wisdom and morality. Fénelon's work proved incredibly popular going through numerous editions and translations throughout the 18th and well into the 19th century. The author's ideals of simplicity equality and world peace found their way through Telemachus and Minerva/Athena to French revolutionaries and German romantics thus indirectly shaping 18th- and 19th-century European cultural and political thought. It also found its way to North America - becoming one of Thomas Jefferson's favourites - and the Ottoman Empire. With the publication of an edition in Ottoman Turkish in 1859 it became the first European novel to be translated into Turkish.The present luxurious edition - which stands in stark contrast to the author's original message of simplicity and relative equality - was produced under the direction of Pierre François Didot with the patronage of the future King Louis XVIII. It is the first edition to unite the text with the detailed illustrations by Monnet and Tilliard. The first 6 plates belonging to the first 2 books in volume 1 are numbered signed and captioned all other plates are "avant la lettre" without the textual information and are very rare. The main text is set in the new Gros Romain gras roman type that Didot commissioned for this book from the punchcutter Jean-Baptiste Gérard and printed on high quality wove paper made by Pierre II and Étienne Montgolfier in Annonay.With the bookbinder's label of Nicolas-Denis Derome mounted on the verso of the second flyleaf "Rélié par Derome le jeune". The boards have been slightly rubbed the spines are somewhat faded due to exposure to sunlight in the past. The work is slightly browned and very lightly foxed throughout the tissue paper guards have browned some of the plates are stained. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cohen & De Ricci cols. 384-385; André Jammes Les Didot 1998 p. 27; Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer Les caracteres de Pierre-François Didot 1783-1790 in: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1962 pp. 57-67 at pp. 60-64 & figs. 1-7 also in Veyrin-Forrer La lettre et le texte 1987 pp. 139-157; Quérard III p. 92; for the plates by Tilliard after Monnet: Portalis 1877 pp. 399-413. l'imprimerie de Monsieur" [colophon below advertisement: Pierre François Didot le jeune, printer to the future King Louis XVIII hardcover
