Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

Rabelais, Francois

The five books, adventures and origins of two giants during the sixteenth century; translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (translations of books one and two published 1653, book three 1693), and Peter Antony Mannix; 1/1500 numbered copies (total edition 1650) printed on mould made rag paper by W and J Mackay, Chatham.

Publisher: The Fraser Press. First English edition thus 1970
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Grey flecked linen, printed label. A couple of spots on foredge, else fine as issued without dustwrapper and with spare label tipped-in at rear.


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