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Les œuvres de M. François Rabelais... : Augmentées de la vie de l'auteur & de quelques remarques sur sa vie & sur l'histoire. Avec la clef & l'explication de tous les mots difficiles...
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- Les œuvres de M. François Rabelais... : Augmentées de la vie de l'auteur & de quelques remarques sur sa vie & sur l'histoire. Avec la clef & l'explication de tous les mots difficiles...
- Author
- Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?
- Publication
- [Rouen?], 1659 [i.e. 1669?]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. French 1669 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- 2 v. in 3. 1 illus.; 15cm. (12̕.)
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- Note
- Brunet, IV, 1059; suppl., II, 368. Fairfax Murray 474. Plan: Bibliographie rabelaisienne, 130. Rahir: Elzevier, 3370.
- Half-title of v. 1 and t.p. of v. 2 dated 1669.
- Possibly printed after 1675 (cf. Plan) or in the eighteenth century (cf. Rahir); Closely resembles the 1663 Elzevir edition (cf. Brunet).
- Illustrations: woodcut outline of a bottle around text on p. 347 of v. 2. Extra-illustrated, following the prologue to v. 1, with a series of 14 grotesque figures cut out of engravings and labelled and added to in pen and ink to serve as pictures of Rabelaisian characters. Two of them are from M. van Lochom's Les joueurs de cartes. Extra-illustrated also, at the end of each of the two volumes in which v. 1 is bound, with a numbered series of 104 pencil drawings of male and female heads, mostly grotesque. These are copies, all by one hand, of a collection of caricature heads by Leonardo da Vinci which was probably dispersed by 1690. These copies may have been made by or for Wenceslaus Hollar whose engravings of grotesque heads after Leonardo drawings in the Arundel collection were published between 1645 and 1651.--cf. Parthey: Hollar, 1558-1610, 1738-1749, and Sprinsels, F. Hollar, Handzeichnungen. Wien [1938] no. 32-36. For description, reproductions and discussion. cf. Scott-Elliot, A. H. Caricature heads after Leonardo da Vinci in the Spencer Collection. (In: New York public library. Bull. New York. v. 62, p. 279-299. 1958, June.)
- The Fairfax Murray copy, with bookplate of John Levien and monogram stamp of AB.
- Binding, 19th century French, of straight-grained red morocco, gilt.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1669
- OCLC
- 131729133
- Author
- Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?
- Title
- Les œuvres de M. François Rabelais... : Augmentées de la vie de l'auteur & de quelques remarques sur sa vie & sur l'histoire. Avec la clef & l'explication de tous les mots difficiles...
- Imprint
- [Rouen?], 1659 [i.e. 1669?]
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- Added Author
- Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1669