xii, 13-230 pp. Text in two columns. Translated by John Hawkesworth. With 6 copper engravings. (8vo) 21x13 cm (8¼x5), quarter-leather and marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Later printing.
Les aventures de Télémaque (The adventures of Telemachus) is a didactic French novel by Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai. The plot fills out a gap in Homer's Odyssey, recounting the educational travels of Telemachus, son of Ulysses, accompanied by his tutor, Mentor, who is revealed at the end of the story to be Minerva, goddess of wisdom, in disguise.