Francis Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer, physician and Greek Scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire of the grotesque and of jokes and songs. These volumes contain five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings or Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel and have been privately printed for the Navarre Society and translated from the original French into English.
This book is in very good condition. Rubbing/chipping/shelf wear to the jacket around the edges, corners and at the top/bottom of the spine panel. Some rubbing/chipping/soiling/shelf wear to the front/rear jacket panels as well as along the spine panel. Boards are straight and clean with shelf wear around the edges and corners. The spine and pages are very tight. Some tanning/offsetting to the first/last free endpapers from the dust jacket flaps. There are no other marks, tears, bookplates or writing in this book. Please review all photos for your best idea of the condition of this book. Shipping on this item will be $5.30.