Master Francis Rabelais: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel [Three Volumes]
by Rabelais, Francis; Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, trans.; illus. Louis Chalon
Later printing
Price: $200.00
- Bookseller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 22965
- Format: Rebound in full straight-grained tan morocco, gilt fillets with floral corners, raised bands, six gilt-boxed compartments, elaborate gilt inner dentelles, light blue endpapers; top edge gilt; silk bookmarks
- Book condition: A handsome set with extremities lightly scuffed, but still very good+ if not better
- Edition: Later printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London: A. H. Bullen, 1904
Book Description
London: A. H. Bullen, 1904. Later printing. Rebound in full straight-grained tan morocco, gilt fillets with floral corners, raised bands, six gilt-boxed compartments, elaborate gilt inner dentelles, light blue endpapers; top edge gilt; silk bookmarks. A handsome set with extremities lightly scuffed, but still very good+ if not better. Sm. 4to. Illus. with 14 b/w plates. The text of the first two books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation. Footnotes initialed "M" are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translator. Urquhart's translation of Book III appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I and II, under Motteux's editorship. Motteux's rendering of Books IV and V followed in 1708. Occasionally (as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. An excellently illustrated edition first published by Lawrence and Bullen 12 years earlier.
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