Author: RABELAIS, Francois.
Title: The works of Francois Rabelais, volumes I - V
Description: London, Gibbings and Co. 1897. Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks in dark green cloth . Comprising 5 books in the story of Gargantua & Pantagruel. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decorative illustration of comedy-tragedy masks on each front board & spine. Spines remarkably well-preserved for age, bright colour and gilt, very presentable for shelf display. Light bumping at head and foot of spines. Foxing present. Each with frontspiece & original tissue guard & nine further plates. Untrimmed fore-edges. Bindings tight. Digital images available on request. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart & Peter Motteux with the notes of Duchat, Ozell, and others; introduction and revision by Alfred Wallis. Photo:.

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