Complete Works with Critical Apparatus and Illustrations

Description

Variorum edition augmented with unpublished pieces, the Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (posthumous work), with facing explanations; remarks by Le Duchat, Bernier, Le Motteux, abbé de Marsy, Voltaire, Ginguené, etc.; and new historical and philological commentary by Esmangart and Eloi Johanneau. Paris, Dalibon, 1823; 9 volumes in-8°, cardboard bindings (lightly worn, interior well preserved, former owner's name on title pages). Portrait of Rabelais by Devéria, engraved by Leisnier and Forster, figures by Devéria and 120 woodcut drawings after Rabelais.