Master Francis Rabelais : Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel, Volume I
240pp; some in-text illustrations, four plates including frontispiece (tissue guarded) all black and white. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Sun faded spine and boards, worn. Bumped spine ends. Lightly bumped bottom corners. Gilt top-edge, other edges uncut. Free endpapers tanning, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Translated into English by Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux.
