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RABELAIS, François.
See original version (French)
116
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RABELAIS, François.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
RABELAIS, François.
The Works of Master François Rabelais.
Amsterdam, Henri Bordesius, 1711.
6 tomes in 5 volumes, small 12mo. Titles in red and black. Contemporary glazed fawn calfskin, speckled, with a ribbed spine decorated in the ‘à la fanfare’ style, alternating dotted motifs and gilt scrolls; title and volume number labels in red and black morocco; triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt fillet on the edges and gilt scrolls on the corners, red edges (skilful and discreet restorations, including a cap at the top; a few foxing spots; in volume 3, a slight loss of paper at the top margin with minor damage to the text on pages 201–208; discreet stains and scratches).
A fine, very well-bound copy of the first critical and annotated edition.
Compiled by the philologists Jacques Le Duchat and Bernard de La Monnoye, whose commentary will go down in history.
A good copy.
Featuring a smiling face of Silenus in a gilt medallion, repeated on the spines.
Only 3 entries in the CCFr (BnF and Nice).
Illustrated with a frontispiece, a portrait of Rabelais, three fold-out plates showing La Devinière (Rabelais’s house), a fold-out map of the Chinon region and a vignette bearing the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Raby Wentworth, Peer of England.
The portrait and the frontispiece are engraved by W. de Broen.
It contains the Key at the end of the last volume. Cohen, 839.
Cohen, 839.
See original version (French)
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