Master Francis Rabelais . Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux Illustrations by Louis Chalon.
François Rabelais (1490-1553)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018224.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2.,plates . ill.. . 8vo. Provenance: Bookseller's tickets on front pastedown: 'R.D. Steedman Bookseller Newcastle-on-Tyne'. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Cloth, gilt lettered on spine, gilt top, other edges deckle.
Makers and roles
François Rabelais (1490-1553) Louis Chalon Pdeter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718) Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660)