All the Extant Works of François Rabelais An American Translation with a Critical Text Variant Readingsvariorum Notes & Drawings Attributed to Rabelais in Three Volumes
by Rabelais, François
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E-204: Covici, Friede Publishers. Very Good. 1929. Hardcover. Hardcover. Small Folio. Covici-Friede, New York, 1929. 3 Volumes, Volume I xxxviii, 515 pgs; Illustrated with color frontis, 8 color plates, a map, and 7 black and white plates; Volume II 519-865 pgs, Illustrated with with a color frontis, 6 color and 2 black and white plates. Volume III 871-1273 pgs. With a frontis portrait and 120 black and white plates. Limited edition of 1300, this being No. 128. Bound in tan paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, leather spine label, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in red and black, color and black and white plates. Spines sunned, tips and board edges worn and lightly rubbed. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The irrepressibly racy and merrily blasphemous humor of Rabelais is here presented in irrepressibly racy and merrily blasphemous American English by the distinguished scholar Samuel Putnam, who would later become the renowned translator of Don Quixote. Belgian painter Jean de Bosschère worked in a highly eroticized Art Nouveau style influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, and he calibrates carefully what he can allow himself to depict for the prudish American audience while illustrating the jolly carnality of Rabelais. Putnam's linguistic scholarship, in general, and scholarly notations and appendices for Rabelais, in particular, are admirable. E-204; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Title
- All the Extant Works of François Rabelais An American Translation with a Critical Text Variant Readingsvariorum Notes & Drawings Attributed to Rabelais in Three Volumes
- Author
- Rabelais, François
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Covici, Friede Publishers
- Place of Publication
- E-204
- Date Published
- 1929
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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