The whole works; or, The lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua & Pantagruel... With a large account of the life and works of the author: Particularly an explanation of the most difficult passages in them; never before publish'd in any language (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The whole works; or, The lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua & Pantagruel... With a large account of the life and works of the author: Particularly an explanation of the most difficult passages in them; never before publish'd in any language (v.2)
Other titles: Gargantua; Pantagruel; The whole works of F. Rabelais, M.D
Classmark: BC Lt/RAB
Creator(s): Rabelais, François (1490-1553?)
Additional creator(s): Urquhart, Sir Thomas (1611-1660) (Other); Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718) (Other)
Related people: Urquhart, Thomas; Motteux, Peter Anthony
Publisher: Printed for James Woodward
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1708
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283674
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001772189705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
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Cover title: Works of Rabelais.
Vol. 2 has title: Pantagruel's voyage to the oracle of the bottle; being the fourth and fifth books of the works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. with The Pantagruelian Prognostication, and other pieces in vesre and prose by that author: Also in Historical letters. Compleating all his works that are Extant. Never before printed in English. Done out of French by Mr. Motteux. With explanatory remarks on every chapter by the same hand. (Imprint reads "Printed and sold by James Woodward").
Part-title for Book 5 follows p.228 in Vol.2, beginning new pagination sequence.
Frontispiece portrait of Rabelais in Vol.1.
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