[Rarebooks] For sale: Jena 1749 imprint in English, with an interesting provenance

[Norman Kane]

[FENELON, FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTTE, ARCHBISHOP OF 
CAMBRAY.]  THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS . . . WITH THE ADVENTURES OF 
ARISTONOUS. DONE INTO ENGLISH FROM THE LAST PARIS (WHICH IS THE ONLY 
GENUINE) EDITION, BY MR. IS. LITTLEBURY AND MR. A. BOYER . . . 
PRINTED AT THE SECOND TIME ACCORDING TO THE LONDON'S [sic] EDITION, 
AND CAREFULLY PURG'D OF THE ERRORS OF THE FORMER.   Jena: Theodore 
William Ernest Guth, 1749.
Old (probably original) speckled boards with cream-colored 
title-label, some edge-rubbing but a very good copy. A few leaves 
with old paper repairs, one such covering over 3 lines of print on 
one page. 8vo, Xii, [36], 526 pages.  Includes a 36-page "Discourse 
upon Epick Poetry," the Preface to the last French Paris edition  , 
and the "Advertisement Concerning this English 
Version."  Frontispiece portrait of Fenelon engraved by Kruegner. 
Boldly docketed on the end paper by [Reichsgraf] Paul of Beroldingen, 
Jan. 1, [17]74. He was then 20.  He studied law at Goettingen and 
held high legal positions under Katharina and later Pauline von 
Wuerttenberg, spending much of his time in Vienna because of these 
legal duties, rather than at his castle (Ratzenried in Argenbuehl 
near Ravensburg.)  (This very popular genial hoax was often used as a 
teaching aid,  although one sometimes finds it listed by the naive as 
a genuine history.  Fenelon wrote it for his pupil,  later the King 
of France, to teach him moral lessons, &c, in the guise of pleasant 
fiction.)  $175.00        (Trade Discount Avilable)


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