The Five Books and Minor Writings Together with Letters & Documents Illustrating His Life. A New Translation with Notes... Published for Suscribers Only

Rabelais The Five Books and Minor Writings Together with Letters & Documents Illustrating His Life. A New Translation with Notes... Published for Subscribers Only

Author: Rabelais (born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) and Smith, W.F. (Ed.)

8vo.(6.25" x 9.25")1893. [Rabelais] and Smith, W.F. (Ed.). London. For Subscribers Only by Alexander P. Watt. 2 volumes. Limited Edition #261/750. Tan buckram spine over cloth boards. Spines with gilt title/translator/vol# towards head, gilt year at foot. Top edge gilt, deckled otherwise. Early ownership in old ink neatly to first free endpaper, title pages in black and red. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips, head and foot of spine frayed with small loss, covers lightly soiled with small white stains (spots) to front cover of Vol.1., rear cover of Vol.II. Sun darkening to spine. A thick set of books. Attestation page states: "This Edition is Limited to 750 Copies, of Which 250 Copies are For America This Copy is No. 261"

From Wiki: François Rabelais (born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, later he became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters. Both ecclesiastical and anticlerical, Christian and a freethinker, a doctor and a bon vivant, the multiple facets of his personality sometimes seem contradictory. Caught up in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais treated the great questions of his time in his novels. Assessments of his life and work have evolved over time depending on dominant paradigms of thought. Rabelais admired Erasmus and like him is considered a Christian humanist. He was critical of medieval scholasticism, lampooning the abuses of powerful princes and popes, opposing them with Greco-Roman learning and popular culture. Rabelais is widely known for the first two volumes relating the childhoods of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel written in the style of bildungsroman; his later works—the Third Book (which prefigures the philosophical novel) and the Fourth Book are considerably more erudite in tone. His literary legacy is such that the word Rabelaisian designates something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism".

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