The Works of Francois Rabelais (1897)
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The Works of Francois Rabelais (1897)
by Francois Rabelais; Urquhart and Motteux [trans]
Full Title: The Works of Francois Rabelais. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, with the Notes of Duchat, Ozell and Others; Introduction and Revision by Alfred Wallis.
7 x 4 ¾. In English. Published by Gibbings and Company Limited, London, 1897. FIRST EDITION. Five Volumes. Complete. On laid paper, with five engraved frontispieces (one a portrait; all original tissue guards present) and eight engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), series and volume titles, volume titles in red and black, endpapers lightly browned and frontispiece rectos lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt in art-nouveau style, gilt tops, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp, clean set. Early editions are not commonly seen in the marketplace.
François Rabelais (1483/1494 – 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, 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. Because of his literary power and historical importance, Western literary critics consider him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His literary legacy is such that today, the word Rabelaisian has been coined as a descriptive inspired by his work and life.
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