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Rabelais

19th Century Rabelais-GUSTAVE DORE-Chatto & Windus

ON AUCTION

Faithfully Translated From The French

It Is Superbly Illustrated Throughout With Plates Blank On The Reverse By Gustave Dore

Published By Chatto And Windus Circa 1890

The Volume Is Complete In 5 Books With All Plates + Tissue Guarded Frontispiece Intact

The Book Is All Original Bound In Full Dark Gray Cloth Hardcover

Embossed Gilt Decoration At The Front Cover

Lettered And Decorated By Gilt At The Spine

A Gilt Top Edge

640 Numbered Pages Complete Still Tight Contents

7-1/2″ High And 5″ Wide

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Epitaph On A Tyrant

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
W.H. Auden

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