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 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.
François Rabelais (1490-1553)
Category
Books
Date
1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256307.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full white publisher's cloth; double gilt fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: fleur-de-lys in circle; spine gilt, lettered direct: 'The works of Rabelais illustrated by W. Heath Robinson'; gilt top edge. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
François Rabelais (1490-1553) , author William Heath Robinson (Hornsey 1872 – 1944) , illustrator