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London, England: The Navarre Society, 1921. Hardcover. Good- (cloth scuffed, scratched & smudges; edge-worn. spine sunned grey w/ chips & tears to ends; tail has binding exposed. corners rubbed; crease to upper front. textblock edges foxed & darkened; abrasions to fore-edge w/ rubbing, chipping. two splits to textblock). blue silken-like boards w/ gilt printing & spine. book xvi, 402 pgs w/ frontispiece, bw plates. top edge gilt. Many unopened pages throughout.
Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, The by ROBINSON, W. Heath; Rabelais, François
by ROBINSON, W. Heath; Rabelais, François
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[ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. RABELAIS, François. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel...Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. In Two Volumes. London: Grant Richards, 1904.
First edition. Two quarto volumes (11 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 285 x 223 mm.). xlii, [1, blank], [1, illustration], 377, [1, blank]; xliv, 350, [2, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece in each volume, with tissue guard. Volume I with fifty-five full-page illustrations, fifty-nine grotesque heads, and twenty-six other small drawings or vignettes, all in line. Volume II with forty-three full-page illustrations, thirty-five grotesque heads, and thirty-four other small drawings or vignettes , all in line.
Publisher's white buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, pictorial end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Corners slightly bumped, some light foxing to preliminary leaves and blank margins, otherwise a very good copy
"[Robinson's] largest and most ambitious project to date... was The Works of Rabelais which was published in two large volumes containing a hundred full page illustrations and well over a hundred smaller drawings and vignettes... It is the full page drawings that are the most original, with visions of hell that are truly horrific, and a raw power and earthiness in the drawings that is exactly in tune with Rabelais' narrative style. These drawings must have influenced illustrators who followed and many of them bring to mind the work of Mervyn Peake forty years later" (Beare, p. 23).
"The last serious piece of illustration that [Robinson] undertook in this first phase of his book illustrating career" (Lewis, p. 83).
Beare 35A; Lewis, p. 215.
[ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. RABELAIS, François. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel...Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. In Two Volumes. London: Grant Richards, 1904.
First edition. Two quarto volumes (11 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 285 x 223 mm.). xlii, [1, blank], [1, illustration], 377, [1, blank]; xliv, 350, [2, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece in each volume, with tissue guard. Volume I with fifty-five full-page illustrations, fifty-nine grotesque heads, and twenty-six other small drawings or vignettes, all in line. Volume II with forty-three full-page illustrations, thirty-five grotesque heads, and thirty-four other small drawings or vignettes , all in line.
Publisher's white buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, pictorial end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Corners slightly bumped, some light foxing to preliminary leaves and blank margins, otherwise a very good copy
"[Robinson's] largest and most ambitious project to date... was The Works of Rabelais which was published in two large volumes containing a hundred full page illustrations and well over a hundred smaller drawings and vignettes... It is the full page drawings that are the most original, with visions of hell that are truly horrific, and a raw power and earthiness in the drawings that is exactly in tune with Rabelais' narrative style. These drawings must have influenced illustrators who followed and many of them bring to mind the work of Mervyn Peake forty years later" (Beare, p. 23).
"The last serious piece of illustration that [Robinson] undertook in this first phase of his book illustrating career" (Lewis, p. 83).
Beare 35A; Lewis, p. 215.
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Volume II
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WORKS OF MR. FRANCIS RABELAIS Doctor in Physick, Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel
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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 Pantagruel.
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THE WORKS OF MR FRANCIS RABELAIS Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua & his Sonne Pantagruel in Two Volumes
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London and Philadelphia: Alexander Moring Ltd/De La More Press 2 vols. xvi,474;viii,462 pp. ND. Over 100 illus. by W. Heath Robinson. Binding worn, internally fine t.e.g.. Blue cloth, gilt. V.g.. Illus. by Heath Robinson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais. Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books Of The Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings Of Garagantua and His Sonne Pantagruei.
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1948. The Navarre Society, London. 1948. Reprint. Hardback. DW. Large 8vo. 462 pages. Complete in one volume. Frontis and illustrations. Gift inscription to front free endpaper with some foxing to endpapers, pages browned o/w a nice copy in worn and torn wrapper which lacks a portion at the bottom of the front panel near the spine.
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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 Pantagruel. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
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London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 2 volumes, large 8vo, moire blue cloth gilt, books very good, light foxing, dust jackets good, used and soiled, darkened and rubbed along spines. Very handsome set with hundreds of illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais.
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THE WORKS OF MR. FRANCIS RABELAIS DOCTOR IN PHYSICK.
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London, Grant Richards,, 1904.. CONTAINING FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROICK DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SONNE PANTAGRUEL. ILLUSTRATED BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. Two volumes. 4to. xxxix+377pp. Photogravure frontispiece and 55 full-page plates; xli+350pp. Photogravure frontispiece and 43 full-page plates. Profusely illustrated. Handsomely rebound in half calf, top edge gilt.
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