Translated from the French, and illustrated with explanatory notes by M. Le du Chat, and others. In four volumes. London, printed for T. EVANS, 1784 MDCCLXXXIV. 4 volúmenes (completo), 8vo menor, 18,1 x 11 cm. Texto en inglés. Encuadernación pasta española, doble tejuelo y ruedas doradas. Interior en buen estado, encuadernación leves desgastes. Cuatro grabados al cobre en frontis a plena página, de J. WOUDING según dibujo de LF.D.B., seguido de título con viñeta u ornamento. Vol.I: Exlibris ("Res non verba"). (Frontis) Interview with the Hermit Braguibar in the Sounding Island; viñeta con retrato del autor. 3 h (Dedicatory & Contents) + cxvi (Advertisement / Life / Opinions / Preface / List of Names / To the Reader / Prologue) + cxvii (117)- 347 FIRST BOOK, Treating of the Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua. Vol.II: (Frontis) Little Pantagruel enters Laden with his bradle into the Hall where his Father Gargantua is Feasting with his Friends + 2 h (Contents) + vi + p. 7-207 SECOND BOOK: Treating of the Heroic deeds and sayings of the good Pantagruel + p. 208. Francis Rabelais to the Soul of the deceased Queen of Navarre (verso) + p. 208-220 The Author's Prologue to Book III + p. 221-360 THIRD BOOK (How Pantagruel transported a Colony of Utopians into Dipsodie ... etc).  Vol.III: (Frontis) Pantagruel kills the sea Monster Physeterra + 3 h. (Contents)  + p.1-138 (The Third Book continued) + p. 139-208 (Preface to Fourth Book, Explanatory Remarks, Dedicatory, Prologue) + p. 209-359 THE FOURTH BOOK OF PANTAGRUEL (How Pantagruel went to Sea to visit the Oracle of Bacbuc, alias the Holy Bottle ... etc). Vol.IV: (Frontis) Panurge eqiupt by Bacbuc to discover the secret of the Bottle + 3 h (contents) + p. 1-75 (The Fourth Book continued) + p.76-124 (Explanatory Remarks, Prologue to the Fifth Book) + p. 125-287 THE FIFTH BOOK, Treating of the Heroic deeds and sayings of the good Pantagruel + p. 288-340 Pantagruelian Prognostication (To the courteous reader) , Epistels, Letters ....

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