Gargantua and Pantagruel
( Gustave DORE, illus. ) RABELAIS, Francois
Translated by M.A. Screech. Introduction by Stephen Greenblatt. Essay by Milan Kundera. Illustrations by Gustave Dore.
FIRST APPEARANCE IN FS; 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Folio Society, 1988
Stock code: 47225
Price: £1,750.00
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous full-page and smaller engraved illustrations; red cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt, red goatskin backs lettered in gilt, gilt tops, silk ribbon markers, a fine copy in publisher's cloth slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt.
EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 462). All five books are contained in two volumes, uniting for the first time Screech's new translation [2006] with Dore's immortal illustrations (all reproduced at their original size) from the famous Garnier Freres edition of 1854.