Accession number
PML 198983
Creator
Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?
Published
London : Gibbings and Company Limited, 1897.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Acquisitions Fund, 2022.
Notes
Illustrated with mechanical reproductions of plates from the so-called Picart edition of Rabelais: Oeuvres, avec des remarques historiques et critiques de Mr. Le Duchat (Amsterdam: Chez Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741), which had been engraved by Jacob Folkema (1692-1767) after designs by Louis Fabricus Dubourg.
Each vol. has special t. p.
Library's set lacking volume 3, The heroic deeds and sayings of the good Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes.
Each vol. has special t. p.
Library's set lacking volume 3, The heroic deeds and sayings of the good Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes.
Description
5 volumes : illustrations ; 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Volume 1 inscribed on front free endpaper: "To G. S. Lobrano. To know him is to love me, from J. Bryan III, Feb 4. 1932."
Provenance
Inscribed by the writer and editor Joe Bryan to Gus Lobrano (1902-1956); Dorothy Lobrano Guth (1928-2016).
Binding
Publisher's pictorial green cloth stamped in gold.
Classification
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