Deux Dialogues sur la Peinture, Par M. Fenelon, Archevêque de Cambray.
3 p.l., iv, 39 pp. 18mo (142 x 96 mm.), cont. brown sheep-backed boards (extremities a trifle worn), uncut. London: Ballintine & Byworth, 1811.
One of 100 copies, privately printed; this is a bibliophilic re-publication of Fénelon’s elegant dialogues on the importance of a ruler engaging with and actively promoting the fine arts. Initially meant for private distribution only, this edition was printed in three issues: 50 copies in 18mo, 40 on grand papier, and 10 on colored paper.
Fénelon (1651-1715), archbishop of Cambrai and an esteemed writer and theologian, originally composed these two imagined dialogues at the end of... More