Oeuvres de Rabelais. Texte collationné sur les Éditions originales avec une vie de l'auteur, des notes et un glossaire. Tome I.

  • Hardcover
  • Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1873
By Rabelais, François; Gustav Doré, illustrator
Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1873. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Volume I only. François Rabelais (1490 - 1553) was a French author considered by many to be the first great French prose author. He was a humanist of the French Renaissance and a Greek scholar.

Elephant folio. Bound in the original dark red cloth boards with gilt title and illustration to front board. Amateur repairs to hinges and joints. Lacks original spine and has a new dark brown cloth spine. Glue repairs to cloth on boards. Clean and bright interior overall with many plates and in text illustrations by Doré. Only occasional smudge marks. 474 pages. FRE/062525.

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