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The works of Mr. Francis Rabelais doctor in physick : containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel, together with the Pantagrueline prognostication, the Oracle of the divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts, as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin epistle / all done by Francis Rabelais in the French tongue and now faithfully translated into English ; illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

Accession number
PML 145986-87
Creator
Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?
Published
London : Grant Richards, 1904.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Reprint of the 1653 ed. which was a translation by T. Urquhart and P. A. Motteux.
Vol. 1: xlii, 377 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: xliv, 350 p., [1] leaf of plates.
"Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. London & Edinburgh"--Colophon.
Description
2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's white cloth decorated in gold.
Classification
Department