Author: RABELAIS, FRANCOIS / SIR THOMAS URQUHART OF CROMARTY AND PETER ANTONY MOTTEUX (TRANSLATORS) / ANATOLE DE MONTAIGLON (INTRODUCTION) / LOUIS CHALON (ILLUSTRATOR) .
Title: Five books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel. Translated Into English By Sir Thomas Urquhart Of Cromarty And Peter Antony Motteux with an introduction by Anatole De Montaiglon...
Description: London: Lawrence And Bullen, 16, Henrietta Street, 1892 . 0. Limited edition No. 41 (of 1000 copies). A very good later green cloth binding. 4to. Vol. I.: pp.xlvi/ [2p.]/pp.341/[2pp.] . Vol. II. : pp.xi/[3pp.]/pp.455/[1p.] . Clean green cloth boards with gilt crest. Smooth spines with gilt titles. Later endpapers. Original owner's signature to front endpaper of both volumes: David Crook. Light foxing to endpapers and intermittent spotting throughout. All illustrations present and with tissue guards. Each volume ends with Chiswick Press clophon and crest. VG. N.B. : Note to endpaper of Vol. I. - "David Crook 18/6/41 Downingbury Farm, Pembury I. Wells, (Frank & Queenie Roberts - Where Dougie White & I had been living when Guy was evacuated to Pembury Hospital - During Spring 1940, The Battle of Britain etc) .".

Keywords: 50417 Pembury Hospital Dougie White David Crook Rabelais, Francois Lawrence and Bullen Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty Peter Antony Motteux Anatole de Montaiglon Louis Chalon Literature: : 19th Century


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