Accession number
PML 126448-52
Creator
Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?
Published
Amsterdam : Chez Henri Bordesius, 1711.
Credit line
Purchased with the Richard Priest collection, 1994.
Notes
T.p.s printed in black and red.
V. 1 has added engraved t.p. with portrait of the author.
Ed. by Jacob Le Duchat and Bernard de La Monnoye.
Apparent reprint of the original Bordesius ed. of 1711. The engraved t.p., signed "W. de Broen" in the original, is unsigned in the reprint; the signatures of the reprint are in eights and fours, alternately and the pagination varies from that of the original in many instances. cf. Plan, Bibl. Rabelaisienne, and Brunet, Recherches bibl. et crit. sur les éditions de Rabelais.
Signatures: [pi]² a-d⁸/⁴ A-2E⁸/⁴ 2F²; [pi]² *⁴ A-2A⁸/⁴ 2B²; [pi]² *⁸ 2*² A-Y⁸/⁴ Z⁴ ²Z²; [pi]² *-4*⁸/⁴ 5*⁴ A-2A⁸/⁴ 2B²; [pi]² *⁷ A-S⁸/⁴ T⁸ ²A-M⁸/⁴.
V. 1 has added engraved t.p. with portrait of the author.
Ed. by Jacob Le Duchat and Bernard de La Monnoye.
Apparent reprint of the original Bordesius ed. of 1711. The engraved t.p., signed "W. de Broen" in the original, is unsigned in the reprint; the signatures of the reprint are in eights and fours, alternately and the pagination varies from that of the original in many instances. cf. Plan, Bibl. Rabelaisienne, and Brunet, Recherches bibl. et crit. sur les éditions de Rabelais.
Signatures: [pi]² a-d⁸/⁴ A-2E⁸/⁴ 2F²; [pi]² *⁴ A-2A⁸/⁴ 2B²; [pi]² *⁸ 2*² A-Y⁸/⁴ Z⁴ ²Z²; [pi]² *-4*⁸/⁴ 5*⁴ A-2A⁸/⁴ 2B²; [pi]² *⁷ A-S⁸/⁴ T⁸ ²A-M⁸/⁴.
Description
6 v. in 5 ([4], xlviii, 336, [4] p., [5] leaves of plates (4 folded); [4], viii, 287, [5] p.; [4], xix, [1], 272, [4] p.; [4], lv, [1], 288, [2] p.; [4], iv (i.e. xiv), 223, [9], 111, [33] p.) : ill. (engravings, woodcuts), map, coat of arms, ports. ; 17 cm
Provenance
Label of William Salloch; Richard E. Priest.
Binding
18th-century calf with gold stamping on spine.
Classification
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