THE WORKS OF MR FRANCIS RABELAIS Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruell In Two Volumes
by RABELAIS Francis, HEATH ROBINSON W. [Illustrator]
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Privately printed for the Navarre Society, c. 1920. 2 vols. Tall 8vo (9 x 6 ins). Original gilt decorated white buckram cloth, top edges gilt (VG). Pp. xvi + 474 [&] xvi + 461, illus with b&w plates and drawings in text by William Heath Robinson (some pages uncut and light tanning on endpapers; no inscriptions).
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- THE WORKS OF MR FRANCIS RABELAIS Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruell In Two Volumes
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- RABELAIS Francis, HEATH ROBINSON W. [Illustrator]
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- Privately printed for the Navarre Society, c. 1920
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...