Oeuvres choisies de Fénelon

Title: Oeuvres choisies de Fénelon

Author: Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe

Publication: A Paris: Chez Le Clere, 1797.

Description: François Fénelon's' "Oeuvres choisies", including "Les Aventures de Télémaque" ("The Adventures of Telemachus"). Volumes 1-4 of 6 volumes. In French. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Vol. 1. Printer's device on each title page. Bound in half sprinkled brown calfskin leather with sprinkled tan paper over boards, spine decorated in gilt, with a tan lettering piece. Duodecimo; 6.75 x 4 inches. Vol. 1: [4], lxxii, 435, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates. Vol. 2: viii, 510 pages. Vol. 3: [4], 491, [1] pages. Vol. 4: [4], 415, [1] pages. Early 19th-century bookplate of L.M. Waille, the parish priest of Saint Laurent, Jura, France, on the front pastedown of each volume. Light wear to the bindings with some staining from the leather on the pastedowns and covers; the text with mild spotting. Very Good. Contents: Traité de l'éxistence de Dieu. -- Dialogues des morts. -- Contes et fables. -- Mélanges de littérature et de morale. -- Discours sur la Poésie Epique, et l'excellence du Poëme de Télémaque. -- Les Aventures de Télémaque.