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• Author: Franà ois Rabelais

Seller Description: Various. Very Good. An illustrated set of Rabelais novels with a black and white plate to frontispiece of each volume and numerous illustrations throughout. In three volumes complete. The museum edition with a decorative half title. François Rabelais (c.1494-9 April 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is ... See More Details

Seller Description: None. Near Fine. A translated edition of this pentalogy of novels following two giants, written in the 16th century. Translated edition. Limited to 1, 560 copies of which 1, 500 were for sale. This copy is out of series. The tale of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and their adventures. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. ... See More Details

Seller Description: None. Very Good. The noted French author, François Rabelais, the Nouvelle Edition, uniformly bound in full calf. A New Edition of the work, written in the original French. Uniformly bound in full calf. Six volumes bound in five of the collected works of FrançoisRabelais, noted physician, humanist, and satirist of the French Renaissance.  His legacy as a writer is designated by the term Rabelaisian, which describes writing that is marked by robust humour and caricature. A new edition of this ... See More Details