Item #72220 GARGANTUA & PANTAGRUEL: Texte Transcrit et Annote par Henri Clouzot, Conservateur du Musee Galliera, et Illustre de 525 Vignettes par Joseph Hemard. Francois Rabelais.
GARGANTUA & PANTAGRUEL: Texte Transcrit et Annote par Henri Clouzot, Conservateur du Musee Galliera, et Illustre de 525 Vignettes par Joseph Hemard

GARGANTUA & PANTAGRUEL: Texte Transcrit et Annote par Henri Clouzot, Conservateur du Musee Galliera, et Illustre de 525 Vignettes par Joseph Hemard

Paris: G. Cres & Cie, Editeurs, 1922. Hardcover. This is No. 376 of 400 copies. A series of five comic novels published between 1532 and 1564 that relate the misadventures of the giants Pantagruel, Gargantua, and Panurge, who are larger in wisdom than in the corporeal sense. Francois Rabelais (c.1494-1553) was a Franciscan and Benedictine monk who later became an eminent physician and humanist. Text in French. 812 p. Quarto. In a three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth binding, with five raised bands, gilt titles, and marbled endpapers. The original wrappers are bound in. Light rubbing to the extremities; otherwise very good. Very good. Item #72220

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