The Works...or the Lives, heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel [with] The Second Book....Treating of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel [with] Pantagruel Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle

François Rabelais; Scot Thomas Urquhart (trans of books 1-3), Mottreux (trans book 4 and parts of 3)

London: RIchard Baldwin, 1694.

Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Item #049236

Four books in three volumes, contemporary calf. Modest wear to corners and hinges, minor browning, foxing, stains. A nice group. Lacking the sometimes present frontis portrait in volume 1 and wanting book 5 also published 1694 and separately paginated. First editions in English of books 3 and 4, second (or third, the first two books were published in 1653 and the sheets reissued with a new title page and life in 1664). (8), clvi, (38), 230, viii, 9-208; (2), 430, (12); (6), xiii (4 mis pag), xii-cxliv, (40), 272; [wanting book 5] lacking rear blanks in first volume,

Nice examples of books 1-4 of Urquhart and Mottreux's famous translation of Rabelais which Charles Whibley (1859-1930) called ""the finest translation ever made from one language into another"".

Provenance: Kenneth Rapoport (ex libris)

Levenside (es lbris) Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 049236.

Price: $2,500.00