London: Gibbings and Company 1903. Cloth. Very Good. 6" by 4". Various. An illustrated set of Rabelais novels with a black and white plate to frontispiece of each volume and numerous illustrations throughout. In three volumes complete. The museum edition with a decorative half title. François Rabelais c.1494 - 9 April 1553 was a major French Renaissance writer doctor Renaissance humanist monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy satire the grotesque bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants a father Gargantua and his son Pantagruel and their adventures written in an amusing extravagant satirical vein. The text features much crudity scatological humour and violence. Lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters. The censors of the Sorbonne stigmatised it as obscene and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression it was dealt with with suspicion and contemporaries avoided mentioning it With a life and critical essay to front of first volume. In quarter cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally sound but with bumping and wear to extremities and slight marks to boards. Internally binding slightly strained. With slight marginal age toning to pages but generally clean but with the odd mark and foxing to endpapers only. Very Good Gibbings and Company hardcover
London: Gibbings and Company Ltd 1901. 5 volumes bound in blue cloth with attractive gilt decoration and titles to the covers and spines top edge gilt title pages printed in black and red engraved frontispieces and a few other plates within the text. Very good gilt dulled to the spine but the panels are bright and clean cloth rubbed to the corners and a couple of nicks to the fore edge of volume IV the bindings are firm text block edges dusty but the text is clean and crisp. A very good set. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. 1901 Gibbings and Company Ltd hardcover
London: Lackington Allen and Co 1807. Very Good. Translated from the French with explanatory notes by du Chat Motteux Ozell and others. Tan calf boards with gilt greek key border and decorated spine. The spine has been well repaired but parts are missing. Edges are worn. Marbled endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned with some foxing but otherwise tight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper.; Vol. 2 Very Good 1807 Lackington Allen and Co hardcover
London: RIchard Baldwin 1694. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Four books in three volumes contemporary calf. Modest wear to corners and hinges minor browning foxing stains. A nice group. Lacking the sometimes present frontis portrait in volume 1 and wanting book 5 also published 1694 and separately paginated. First editions in English of books 3 and 4 second or third the first two books were published in 1653 and the sheets reissued with a new title page and life in 1664. 8 clvi 38 230 viii 9-208; 2 430 12; 6 xiii 4 mis pag xii-cxliv 40 272; wanting book 5 lacking rear blanks in first volume <br /> <br /> Nice examples of books 1-4 of Urquhart and Mottreux's famous translation of Rabelais which Charles Whibley 1859-1930 called "the finest translation ever made from one language into another". <br /> <br /> Provenance: Kenneth Rapoport ex libris<br /> <br /> Levenside es lbris Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 049236. RIchard Baldwin hardcover
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