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Oeuvres de Rabelais édition variorum, augmentée de pièces inédites, des songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, ouvrage posthume, avec l’explication en regard; des remarques de le Duchat, de Bernier, de le Motteux, de l’Abbé de Marsy, de Voltaire, de Ginguené, etc.; et d’un noveau commentaire historique et philologique, par Esmangart et Éloi Johanneau […]
by RABELAIS, François
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Paris: Chez Dalibon (Imprimerie de Jules Didot l’ainé) 1823-1826, 1823. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 9 volumes. With 12 plates including 2 portraits of Rabelais and 10 scenes after the drawings of Devéria. Included also is the fold-out "carte du Chinonois" which, according to Brunet is not found in all copies. Volume IX ("les songes drolatiques") contains an additional title page, a facsimile of the 1565 title, and 120 full page woodcut grotesques, reproduced by Thompson after those in the original edition [Brunet]. This edition includes commentaries and notes by Jacob Le Duchat, Charles Esmangart, Éloi Johanneau, Volataire etc. Bound in period cat’s-paw calf boards with gilt double fillet borders, and board edge decoration; expertly re-backed with the spine displaying gilt raised bands, gilt labels and panels stamped in blind. Binding shows areas of rubbing and wear to the extremities. Interior pages contain mild to moderate scattered foxing (heavier on several pages); an occasional lightly penciled note is present in the margins; a couple minor edge tears are neatly sealed. A chip (1 cm wide x 5mm deep) is located on the upper edge of p. 277 (Vol. VIII). This edition of Rabelais oeuvres contains notes by many past commentators. [Brunet IV 1061; Graesse VI, p. 7].
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- Oeuvres de Rabelais édition variorum, augmentée de pièces inédites, des songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, ouvrage posthume, avec l’explication en regard; des remarques de le Duchat, de Bernier, de le Motteux, de l’Abbé de Marsy, de Voltaire, de Ginguené, etc.; et d’un noveau commentaire historique et philologique, par Esmangart et Éloi Johanneau […]
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- RABELAIS, François
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- Chez Dalibon (Imprimerie de Jules Didot l’ainé) 1823-1826
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- 1823
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