RABELAIS (François). Works, containing the life of Gargantua - Lot 154

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RABELAIS (François). Works, containing the life of Gargantua - Lot 154
RABELAIS (François). Works, containing the life of Gargantua and that of Pantagruel, increased by several fragments and two chapters of the 5th book restored from a manuscript of the manuscript of the Imperial Library [...] Illustrations by Gustave Doré. Paris, J. Bry aîné, 1854. Large in-8, red half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated in the boxes with frames of with gilded fillets and corner fleurons, untrimmed, illustrated cover and spine preserved (Mercier sr de Cuzin). First printing. Frontispiece, 14 plates out of text and about a hundred woodcut vignettes in the text after Gustave Doré. One of the first and best illustrations of Gustave Doré, which preludes in the same spirit to the spirit to the Contes drôlatiques published the following year. Superb copy, bound in booklet, with its very beautiful and fragile white cover printed in red, green and gold, "very rare in good condition" (Carteret, III, p. 3). (Carteret, III, p. 511), preserved, complete with the spine, as new. It is enriched with: - six of the seven covers of the series (without the 6th), each illustrated with a different vignette; - four smokes on chine, for the woodcuts on pages 33 (mounted on cardboard), 68, 77 and the plate opposite page 84. From the libraries of Antoine Vautier (I, 1971, n° 145) and Henri Bonasse (1982, n° 77), with their bookplates.
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