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RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS. Les Oeuvres... contenant cinq livres... Plus, la Prognostication Pantagrueline... Augmenté des Navigations & l'Isle Sonante. "Lyon: Jean Martin, 1558" [after 1600]. 8vo, 160 x 102 mm. (6 5/16 x 4 in.), late seventeenth-century maroon morocco, covers panelled with triple gilt fillet, small gilt shield at center of each cover lettered in gilt "Aoust 1695," spine in six compartments, the second with olive morocco lettering-piece (edges slightly chipped), the remainder tooled in gilt with leafy sprays surrounding stippled fleurons, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., light foxing, one or two small marginal tears, small stain to t3v obscuring 2 letters; modern morocco folding case. 6 parts in one, roman type, headings and quotations in italic type, large woodcut illustration of the Bottle on Mmm3r (Cinquième livre), floriated woodcut initials, type and woodcut ornaments. Brunet IV, 1055-56; Plan 96; Rawles & Screech NRB 90.
One of the only octavo format editions of a series of surreptitiously printed editions of Rabelais's works, most in duodecimo format, of the early 17th-century. The edition is antedated and its unknown printer used more than one edition as copy text, resulting in occasional textual jumbles (cf. Rawles and Screech, p. 477).
Provenance: Manuscript key of Rabelaisian allusions on lower free endpaper or flyleaf, predating the binding (cropped) -- The owner responsible for the dated binding has not been identified, but other books from the same library, similarly bound and dated, are known: cf. for example Brunet, IV, 1059, citing a copy of the Elzevier 1663 edition also dated Août 1695, and a copy of Lannel, Le Roman Satyrique (Paris 1624), sold at Drouot in June 1992 (Courvoisier, expert). -- "J. L. Granjan"; Le Cte. de Suisse(?), signatures on title; effaced signature on last page.
One of the only octavo format editions of a series of surreptitiously printed editions of Rabelais's works, most in duodecimo format, of the early 17th-century. The edition is antedated and its unknown printer used more than one edition as copy text, resulting in occasional textual jumbles (cf. Rawles and Screech, p. 477).
Provenance: Manuscript key of Rabelaisian allusions on lower free endpaper or flyleaf, predating the binding (cropped) -- The owner responsible for the dated binding has not been identified, but other books from the same library, similarly bound and dated, are known: cf. for example Brunet, IV, 1059, citing a copy of the Elzevier 1663 edition also dated Août 1695, and a copy of Lannel, Le Roman Satyrique (Paris 1624), sold at Drouot in June 1992 (Courvoisier, expert). -- "J. L. Granjan"; Le Cte. de Suisse(?), signatures on title; effaced signature on last page.