Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Les horribles et espovantables faictz et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel, roy des Dipsodes, fils du grand géant Gargantua / Composé nouvellement par maître Alcofrybas Nasier [pseud.] Orné de bois en couleurs dessinés et gravés par André Dera

Accession number
PML 76382
Creator
Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?
Published
Paris : Albert Skira, éditeur, [1943]
Description
2 p.l., 7-187(1) p., 3 l. : col. illus. ; 36 cm
Notes
Illustrations: 129 wood engravings in color, comprising 17 full-page cuts (including frontispiece), 22 large cuts in the text and 90 smaller cuts (including title-vignette). Woodcut initials, tailpieces and cover-title. All designed and engraved by André
Binding
Burnt orange morocco, onlays of blue, yellow, and purple morocco, and of black and green calf; doublures of green calf with black calf inlays forming the initials P and L; guards of green suede; by Jacques Anthoine-Legrain.
Provenance
Signed by the artist.
Classification
Department