Jacques-Charles BRUNET
Recherches bibliographiques et critiques sur les éditions originales des cinq livres du roman satirique de Rabelais et sur les différences de texte qui se font remarquer particulièrement dans le premier livre du Pantagruel et dans le Gargantua
L. Potier|Paris 1852|16.50 x 25 cm|relié
First edition, one of the rare copies printed on large vellum.
Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double gilt compartments at the centers of which the crowned and gilt monogram of Clément de Ris is repeated five times, gilt date at foot, small traces of rubbing on joints, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, upper corners slightly bumped, near-contemporary binding signed by Dupré.
Some light foxing affecting mainly some deckled edges of certain leaves.
Gift inscription and manuscript notation in pen by Clément de Ris at head of an endpaper and facing it.
Deluxe copy handsomely bound.
Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double gilt compartments at the centers of which the crowned and gilt monogram of Clément de Ris is repeated five times, gilt date at foot, small traces of rubbing on joints, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, upper corners slightly bumped, near-contemporary binding signed by Dupré.
Some light foxing affecting mainly some deckled edges of certain leaves.
Gift inscription and manuscript notation in pen by Clément de Ris at head of an endpaper and facing it.
Deluxe copy handsomely bound.
€450