Les oeuvres de M. François Rabelais

New edition. Title pages in red and black. Armillary sphere on the title of volume I, fleuron or cipher on the second volume. Wood engraving of the "Divine Bottle", Volume II, p.327.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Decorated raised-band spine. Tawny morocco title-label, tawny calf volume label. One lack at head of volume 1. Scuffing to headcaps and raised bands. Overall rubbed. Some foxing. Good set overall.
These works contain: The Life of François Rabelais; Particulars of the life and customs of François Rabelais; Author's Prologue; I. Book of the life, deeds and heroic sayings of Gargantua; II. and III. Books of the heroic deeds and sayings of Pantagruel; Vol.II: IV. Book of the life, deeds, &c. of Pantagruel; V. Book of the Navigations of said Pantagruel, the Ringing Island, the Island of the Apedests, with the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc & the word of the Bottle; Pantagrueline prognostication [chapters I-X]; Epistle of the Limousin Pantagruel; The Philosophical Cream; Two epistles to two old women of different customs; Alphabet of the author François.