Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?
Title:
The works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, doctor in physick : containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua, and his sonne Pantagruel : together with the Pantagrueline prognostication, the Oracle of the divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle : hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding isle, and the isle of the Apedefts : as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin epistle / all done by Mr. Francis Rabelais, in the French tongue, and now faithfully translated into English ; illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Alternate Title(s):
Works. English. 1904
Published / Created:
London : Grant Richards, 48 Leicester Square, 1904.
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title pages printed in red and black.
Subject Terms:
Fantasy fiction, French -- Translations into English. | Gargantua (Legendary character) -- Fiction. | French literature -- Translations into English. | Giants -- Fiction.
Contributors:
Bennett, Whitman, binder, | Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660–1718, translator. | Richards, Grant, 1872–1948, publisher. | Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872–1944, illustrator. | Urquhart, Thomas, 1611–1660, translator.