Oeuvres de Rabelais: Avec une Vie de l'Auteur, des Notes et un Glossaire, par Louis Moland One of Gustave Doré's finest creations, very rare
by François Rabelais, Gustave Doré (Illustrator)
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- Condition
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Paris: Garnier Frères, 1883. 2nd edition. custom bound in full Vellum. Near Fine. Gustave Dore. Garnier Frères, Paris, IN FRENCH, (no date, but according the Bibliographie de la France, the 3rd edition of 1883. Most dealers list this edition as the 2nd edition of 1873, but that one is bigger, at almost 13x17". The 1873 edition has 719 engravings, the 1883 edition has 674. A thank you to Dore expert Dan Malan for this information.)
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2 vols. large in-4 of [2] ff, xlvii-[1] pp., 584 pp. ; [2] ff, 632 pp. 12½x9¾", (31.5x24.5 cm),Hardcover, custom bound in full Vellum, lettered in black and red, top edges gilt, stamp-signed on front turn-in "L. Laballe Rel".
Third printing of the edition published by Garnier in 1883. Illustrated with more than 600 woodcuts in the text and 60 woodcuts in full page size by Gustave DORÉ, also drawings, including a portrait of Rabelais in the frontispiece of the first volume. One of Gustave Doré's finest creations, very rare and sought-after in large paper. Some soiling to vellum, light foxing, near fine.
Handsomely illustrated volume of the collected works of the 16th century humanist scholar.
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2 vols. large in-4 of [2] ff, xlvii-[1] pp., 584 pp. ; [2] ff, 632 pp. 12½x9¾", (31.5x24.5 cm),Hardcover, custom bound in full Vellum, lettered in black and red, top edges gilt, stamp-signed on front turn-in "L. Laballe Rel".
Third printing of the edition published by Garnier in 1883. Illustrated with more than 600 woodcuts in the text and 60 woodcuts in full page size by Gustave DORÉ, also drawings, including a portrait of Rabelais in the frontispiece of the first volume. One of Gustave Doré's finest creations, very rare and sought-after in large paper. Some soiling to vellum, light foxing, near fine.
Handsomely illustrated volume of the collected works of the 16th century humanist scholar.
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- Rare Books Honolulu (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1873SS
- Title
- Oeuvres de Rabelais: Avec une Vie de l'Auteur, des Notes et un Glossaire, par Louis Moland One of Gustave Doré's finest creations, very rare
- Author
- François Rabelais, Gustave Doré (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Gustave Dore
- Format/Binding
- Custom bound in full Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- Garnier Frères
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1883
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Illustrated Books; French Books;
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