Oeuvres de François Rabelais contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel

First-issue illustrated edition featuring 15 full-page plates and 100 in-text figures by Gustave Doré. This edition is considerably rarer than the well-known later Doré edition published by Garnier in folio format in 1873; moreover, the Garnier edition reused 98 illustrations from the Bry edition. Printed in two columns.
Twentieth-century half morocco binding with corners, in chocolate brown. Smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets. Brown calf title label. A good, fresh copy, with a few occasional scattered foxing.
"Cet ouvrage populaire est fort recherché aujourd'hui pour les puissantes compositions de Gustave Doré qui s'était fait la main pour son admirable illustration des Contes Drolatiques qui parut l'année suivante." Carteret (Le trésor du bibliophile romantique et moderne).