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LA VIE TRES HORRIFICQUE DU GRAND GARGANTUA PERE DE PANTAGRUEL.
(Paris: Léon Pichon, 1921). 283 x 222 mm. (11 1/8 x 8 3/4"). 180, [1] pp. (colophon) Edition Nouvelle. No. 353 OF 967 COPIES.
Publisher's brown paper wrappers, uncut edges (spine and fore edges very neatly reinforced with Japanese rice paper). In a (slightly scuffed) marbled paper slipcase. With 105 woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials, and printer's device by Hermann-Paul. Half title page and title page printed in red and black as are the initials, chapter headings printed in red. ◆Occasional faint offsetting from woodcuts, otherwise a fine copy internally, in a solid and very clean binding.
Striking Modernist woodcuts by French artist René Georges Hermann-Paul enliven our edition of this comic masterpiece, in which Rabelais (ca. 1494-1553) uses the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel to satirize scholastic education, the monastic system (which Rabelais knew from his time as a monk), the papacy, French magistrates, and considerably more. Hermann-Paul (1864-1940) was a French artist who produced a great many illustrations for magazines and newspapers, and his works of fine art found themselves displayed in galleries next to those by some of the great names of the Impressionist age. (ST12683-014)
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