RABELAIS: His life, his work. 5 volumes. Paris, Union Latine - Lot 198

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RABELAIS: His life, his work. 5 volumes. Paris, Union Latine - Lot 198
RABELAIS: His life, his work. 5 volumes. Paris, Union Latine d'Editions, March 15, 1933, 5 vol. gd. in-8, full burgundy chagrin, author and title gilt on spine with 4 large nerves overflowing on the boards, cold filets making all the turn, outside, of the boards and the spine, gilt head edges, marbled paper guards in burgundy and cream, unsigned binding, expl. on Japon Hors Commerce n° F destined to Raoul Mortier, First Large Paper, XXXV - 349 - 284 - 413 - 464 - 394 pp. (i.e. 1941 pp.), text in old French facing the translation in modern French, full-page and first edition (color) stencil illus. full page and in the first edition (vivid colors), and more than 1000 drawings in bistre in the margins of the text in caps by Marcel JEANJEAN, edition in Old French and in modern French adapted by Raoul MORTIER, frontispiece portrait of Rabelais, documents in facsimile: Registration of Rabelais' baccalaureate - Ruling of the Parliament of Paris dated May 24, 1527 - Letter from Rabelais to Guillaume Budé, in Latin and Greek, dated March 4 circa 1520 - Registration of Rabelais' Doctorate on May 22, 1537 - Extract from a handwritten epitaph from the church of St. Paul, Paris.-Some pages of the edition of Pantagruel printed in Lyon in 1533, at the end of the volume an "Essay of bibliography" by Raoul Mortier. Superb and VERY RARE edition on Japan of Rabelais' work published by the Union Latine. Nominative copy for Raoul Mortier, presenter and translator of this edition. More than a thousand drawings by Marcel Jeanjean ( 1893 - 1973 ) French author and illustrator. After having been an aviator during the First World War, he became a great humoristic illustrator in many satirical and humoristic magazines. He illustrated and wrote a very large number of books. At the end of the volume an extraorinary work on the bibliography of Rabelais. Very good condition despite some very light foxing on the body edges.
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