The first book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: . containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds, and 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 Apedests: as likewise the philosophical cream with a Limosm epistle. All done by Mr. Francis Rabelais, in the French tongue, and now faithfully translated into English.
François Rabelais (1490-1553)
Category
Books
Date
1653
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3106605
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],255,[1]p. . 8vo.. Title page trimmed on all sides, partly cut away, mounted on blank leaf. Bound with Book 2 (1653). Former shelfmarks: Ll.2 (in pencil), Ll.11.20 (ink). manuscript (Tittenhanger code?) on front pastedown: "G:1". manuscript (Tittenhanger code?) on rear pastedown: "(43:)".. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Tittenhanger Library" [i.e. from the library at Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire formed by Thomas Pope Blount, grandfather of the wife of Charles Yorke (1722-1770)]. manuscript inscription (twice) on front endpaper: "Thomas-Pope Blount" [i.e. Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1649-1697)]. manuscript initials on p. [5]: "T H B".. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding (rubbed); triple blind fillet border, with two quarter triple blind fillets; gilt roll on board edges; red gilt title label on spine.
Makers and roles
François Rabelais (1490-1553) John Hall (1627-1656) Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660)