FÉNELON. THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMAQUE, son of Ulysses. Printed by order of the King for the education of Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris, Imprimerie de Franç. Ambr. Didot laîné, 1783. 2 volumes in-4°, red morocco, gilt fillets framing the covers, ornate ribbed spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (19th century binding). Beautiful edition luxuriously printed by Pierre Didot and printed in an edition of only 200 copies. One of the few copies containing the engraved frontispiece, 70 (out of 72) plates engraved after drawings by Charles Monnet, painter to the king, by Jean Baptiste Tilliard and 24 culs-de-lamps decorating the summaries. Copy enriched with a handwritten ex-dono from Madame Fétremont de Valay, née de Salignac la Mothe Fénelon, to her goddaughter Madame Brabaud (Brunet II, 1215) (Cohen, 203). Serious dampstaining in volume I, bindings spotted.