Selected Editions
Since the publication of Les Aventures de Telemaque in 1699,
there have been more than 550 editions of
this 17th-century bestseller, without counting the translations into other
languages outside of Europe.
Saint-Sulpice.
https://www.generalsaintsulpice.org/fr/actualites/533-les-aventures-de-telemaque

      ~ 1689 – 1698    
    VERSAILLES, FRANCE      
    Publisher: n/a
    Printed For: Duke of Burgundy
    Sold by: n/a
    Title: None
    No. of Books: 18 Books
    Format: Original
manuscript,  505 pages. – 240 × 180 mm.
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: Bibliothèque nationale
de France. Département des Manuscrits
    Collection: BnF Gallica
Manuscripts 14444
    URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10077186m
DESCRIPTION: Handwritten by François Fénelon for the Duke of
Burgundy. Paper. Bound in Red Moroccan leather		     Marketplace:  
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    ~ 1698 – 1699    
    PARIS, FRANCE      
    Publisher: n/a
    Printed For: Duke of Burgundy
    Sold by: n/a
    Title: None
    No. of Books: 18 Books
    Format: copy of
manuscript,  594 pages. 
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: Bibliothèque nationale
de France. Département des Manuscrits
    Collection: BnF Gallica
Manuscripts 14445
    URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9064573t/f11.item
DESCRIPTION: First handwritten copy by Abbé Le P. Charles Porée
executed at Fénelon’s request, with corrections in Fénelon’s handwriting.		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    ~ 1698 – 1699    
    PARIS, FRANCE      
    Publisher: n/a
    Printed For: Duke of Burgundy
    Sold by: n/a
    Title: None
    No. of Books: 18 Books
    Format: copy of
manuscript 
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: Saint-Sulpice archives
    Collection: Saint-Sulpice
manuscript 2133
    URL: https://www.generalsaintsulpice.org/fr/actualites/533-les-aventures-de-telemaque
DESCRIPTION:Second handwritten copy executed by Fénelon’s
request, with corrections in Fénelon’s handwriting.		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    ~ 1699 – 1701 ?    
    PARIS, FRANCE      
    Publisher: n/a
    Printed For: n/a
    Sold by: n/a
    Title: Histoire de Telemaque
    No. of Books: ?
    Format: manuscript, 291 pages,
incomplete
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: Bibliothèque nationale
de France. Département des Manuscrits
    Collection: BnF Gallica
Manuscripts 14848
    URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723156c
DESCRIPTION:From the Royal library     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    April 6, 1699    
    PARIS, FRANCE      
    Publisher: Chez la veuve de
Claude Barbin, au Palais
    Printed For: Public
    Sold by: Chez la veuve de
Claude Barbin, au Palais
    Title: Suite du quatrième
livre de l’Odyesée d’Homère, ou Les Avantures de Télémaque fils d’Ulysse
    No. of Books: 4 1/2 Books
    Format: Part 1 of 5 Parts,
Books 1 – IV and beginning of V , (208 pages) 
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: The Morgan Library and
Museum and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits
    Collection: https://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=171136
    URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5606392k?rk=21459;2
DESCRIPTION:  Bound in Red
Moroccan leather – Trautz-Bauzonnet		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None

 

               
      1699    
    BRUSSELS, BELGIUM      
    Publisher: François Foppens
    Printed For: Public
    Sold by: François Foppens
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque fils d’Ulysse 
    No. of Books: 5 Books
    Format: Duodecimo – the page
size is roughly 3" x 5" (7.6 x 12.7 cm) 2 Tomes  in 1 Volume Tome 1 (216 pages) Tome 2 (224
pages)
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: The Morgan Library and
Museum
    Collection: https://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=171175
    URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k87280611?rk=42918;4,
or
https://numelyo.bm-lyon.fr/f_view/BML:BML_00GOO0100137001101219116/IMG00000013
DESCRIPTION: Bound in Red Moroccan leather     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    1699    
    THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS      
    Publisher: Chez Adrian Moetjens
    Printed For: Public
    Sold by: Chez Adrian Moetjens
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque fils d’Ulysse ou Suite du quatrième livre de l’Odyesée
d’Homère 
    No. of Books:  
    Format: 14 cm T I (160 pages),
T II (?)
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: The Morgan Library and
Museum
    Collection: Fénélon
collection.  Corsair Record ID 175665
    URL: https://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=175665
DESCRIPTION: Bound in Red Moroccan leather     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    1699    
    COLOGNE, FRANCE      
    Publisher: Chez Pierre Marteau
    Printed For: Public
    Sold by:  
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse ou Suite du quatrième livre de l’Odyssée d’Homère
tome premier
    No. of Books: 5 parts, Books I – V
    Format: Duodecimo – the page
size is roughly 3" x 5" (7.6 x 12.7 cm) 
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: The Morgan Library and
Museum
    Collection: https://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=171175
    URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k87280611?rk=42918;4,
or
https://numelyo.bm-lyon.fr/f_view/BML:BML_00GOO0100137001101219116/IMG00000013
DESCRIPTION: Bound in Red Moroccan leather     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    1699    
    LONDON, ENGLAND      
    Publisher: Awnsham and John
Churchill
    Printed For:  
    Sold by:  
    Title: The adventures of
Telemachus, the son of Ulysses
    No. of Books: ?
    Format: ?
    Translator: Isaac Littlebury and
Abel Boyer
    Language: English
    Location: Reproduction of
original in Yale University Library.
    Collection: Oxford Text Archive,
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/A41096.
https://archive.org/details/termcatalogues160000unse_s3b0/page/n5/mode/2up
    URL: https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12024/A41096?show=full
DESCRIPTION:   editions (1699, June 1700, second.; June
1701, third.; June 1703 with Aristonous, fifth; June 1705, 4th? with
Aristonous; July 1707, Part III?; July 1707, sixth; etc.)		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    1700    
    BRUSSELS, BELGIUM      
    Publisher: François Foppens
    Printed For: Public
    Sold by: François Foppens
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque fils d’Ulysse 
    No. of Books: 10 Books
    Format: Duodecimo – the page
size is roughly 3" x 5" (7.6 x 12.7 cm)[4], 152, [2], 700 pages
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location:  
    Collection:  
    URL:  
DESCRIPTION: Second Edition     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    1700    
    LONDON, ENGLAND      
    Publisher:  Black Swan, Pater-Noster Row, MDCC
    Printed For: Awnsham and John
Churchill, 
    Sold by:  
    Title: The Adventures of
Telemachus : the Son of Ulysses. Part I
    No. of Books:  
    Format: 5 parts, Books I – IV
and beginning of V,  [4], 152, [2], 700
pages ; 12 .  ?
    Translator: Isaac Littlebury and
Abel Boyer
    Language: English
    Location: The Boston Library
    Collection: Rare Books
    URL: https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=119&cn=8855122
DESCRIPTION:      Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    June, 1701    
    LONDON, ENGLAND      
    Publisher:  Black Swan, Pater-Noster Row, MDCC
    Printed For: Awnsham and John
Churchill, 
    Sold by:  
    Title: The Adventures of
Telemachus : the Son of Ulysses. Part I
    No. of Books:  
    Format: 5 parts, Books I – IV
and beginning of V *816 pages)
    Translator: Isaac Littlebury and
Abel Boyer
    Language: English
    Location: The Boston Library
    Collection: Rare Books
    URL:  
DESCRIPTION: The third edition corrected.  To which is added the Adventures of
Aristonous.		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    1703    
    BRUSSELS, BELGIUM      
    Publisher: François Foppens
    Printed For: Public
    Sold by: François Foppens
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque fils d’Ulysse 
    No. of Books:  
    Format: in Five Parts,
Duodecimo – the page size is roughly 3" x 5" (7.6 x 12.7 cm). 2
Tomes bound in 1 Volume.(4) 23-300 pages and (2) 297 – 360 pages.
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location:  
    Collection:  
    URL:  
DESCRIPTION:   New
edition. Augmented and corrected based on the original manuscript of the
author; along with remarks for the understanding of the allegorical poem in
Tome I. Contemporary full leather binding, 
Includes the Adventures of Aristonous; Sophronime ; Dialogues Denis,
Phithas, Damon; Dialogue Raamante, Cato the Centor and Scipio the Afrian;
Diagloue Louis XII Francis I; Dialog Cardinal de Richelieu and Cardinal
Mazarin.		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    June, 1703    
    LONDON, ENGLAND      
    Publisher:  Black Swan, Pater-Noster Row, MDCC
    Printed For: Awnsham and John
Churchill, 
    Sold by: Ralph Smith by the
Royal Exchange
    Title: The Adventures of
Telemachus : the Son of Ulysses. Part I
    No. of Books:  
    Format: in Five Parts,  [4], 131, etc. etc.
    Translator: Isaac Littlebury and
Abel Boyer
    Language: English
    Location: The Boston Library
    Collection: Rare Books
    URL: https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=2&cn=4303900
DESCRIPTION: The fifth edition.     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    June, 1705    
    LONDON, ENGLAND      
    Publisher:  Black Swan, Pater-Noster Row
    Printed For: Awnsham and John
Churchill, 
    Sold by: Ralph Smith by the
Royal Exchange
    Title: The Adventures of
Telemachus : the Son of Ulysses. Part I
    No. of Books:  
    Format: in Five Parts,
Duodecimo – the page size is roughly 3" x 5" (7.6 x 12.7 cm) 
    Translator: Isaac Littlebury and
Abel Boyer
    Language: English
    Location: The Boston Library
    Collection: Rare Books
    URL: https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=904323
DESCRIPTION: The fourth edition. 
To which is added the Adventures of Aristonous.		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: None
                 

 

    1705    
    THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS      
    Publisher: Chez Adrian Moetjens
    Printed For: Chez Adrien Moetjens,
pres la Cour 
    Sold by: Chez Adrian Moetjens
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque fils d’Ulysse ou Suite du quatrième livre de l’Odyesée
d’Homère 
    No. of Books: 16 Books
    Format: Two volumes bound in
one
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location:  
    Collection:  
    URL:  
DESCRIPTION: A summary before each book. Extensive Preface
praising Mr de Cambrai, followed by rebuttal to critics. Additional title
page for Tome II; pagination and collation reset. Title pages in black and
red.  Full leather, with raised bands,
leather label, and tooling in gilt in compartments. (Jean-Claude Bonnet, La
Naissance du Pantheon: Essai sur le culte des grands hommes.).		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: Seventeen engraved
plates throughout. Frontispiece in which Minerva, smiling, guides Telemachus
by the hand along the rough and steep path to virtue.
                 

 

    1717    
    PARIS, FRANCE      
    Publisher: Jacques Etienne,
Editor
    Printed For: Jacques Etienne
    Sold by: Jacques Etienne
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque Fils D’Ulysse
    No. of Books: 24 Books
    Format: Two volumes, in-12.
fig.
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: The Morgan Library and
Museum
    Collection: Fénélon
collection.  Corsair Record ID 175667
    URL: https://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=827&recCount=50&recPointer=0&bibId=175667
DESCRIPTION:Discours de la poesie epique, et
de l’excellence du poeme de Telemaque [by Sir
Andrew Michael Ramsay]. Ode [à l’abbé de Langeron. Red morocco by Capé		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: Map designed by
Rousset and engraved by Bercy. Frontispiece port. to v. 1 engraved by Duflos
after Bailleul; front. to v. 2 & the 24 plates engraved by
Giffart after Bonnart.
                 

 

    1719    
    ROTTERDAM, THE
NETHERLANDS		    
    Publisher: Jacques Etienne,
Editor
    Printed For: Jacques Etienne
    Sold by: Jacques Etienne
    Title: Les Avantures de
Télémaque Fils D’Ulysse
    No. of Books: 24 Books
    Format: Two volumes, in-12.
fig.
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location: The Morgan Library and
Museum
    Collection: Fénélon
collection.  Corsair Record ID 175667
    URL: https://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=827&recCount=50&recPointer=0&bibId=175667
DESCRIPTION:Discours de la poesie epique, et
de l’excellence du poeme de Telemaque [by Sir
Andrew Michael Ramsay].. Ode [à l’abbé de Langeron. Includes remarks for the
Understanding of an allegorical poem. Red morocco by Capé. 		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: Map designed by
Rousset and engraved by Bercy. Frontispiece port. to v. 1 engraved by Duflos
after Bailleul; front. to v. 2 & the 24 plates engraved by
Giffart after Bonnart.
                 

 

               
      1879    
    PARIS, FRANCE      
    Publisher: Leon Bonhoure, Editor
    Printed For: Leon Bonhoure
    Sold by: Leon Bonhoure
    Title: Les Aventures de
Télémaque 
    No. of Books: 18 Books
    Format: One volume. 442 pages
with an additional four page Variant at the end of a part of Book XIII.
    Translator: n/a
    Language: French
    Location:  
    Collection: Bibliotheque Illustre
Des Chefs-D’Œuvre De L’Esprit Humain
    URL:  
DESCRIPTION: Notice entitled Fénelon and His Télémaque (12
pages), Analyses, Notes and Commentaries by M. Jules David.  Bibliography (3 pages). 		     Marketplace: n/a
    Illustrations: Nineteen engraved
plates throughout by M. H. Dubouchet. Frontispiece.
                 




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