[Rarebooks] FS - Rabelais pirate edition, Unfinished "Lesbia Brandon" by Swinburn

[Michael Watson]

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FS - Pirated Rabelais, unfinished Swinburn

Rabelais, Francois, The Works of Rabelais, Private Printing, 1st 
Edition Thus, Hardcover, Large 8vo  9" - 10" tall, 640 pp., VG-/ 
NONE, Darkening of spine label. Spine tail and one corner bumped. 
Significant wear to spine head. All corners rubbed. Wrinkle to front 
pastedown and first three leaves. A bit of foxing to front pastedown 
and endpaper. One spot to fore edge of text block. The full title 
being "The Works of Rabelais, Faithfully Translated From the French 
With Variorum Notes, and Numerous Illustrations. By Gustave Dore." A 
compendium of 5 books by  Rabelais.

Privately printed, yet states no editor, translator,  printer, place, 
or date: a pirated edition, likely by John Camden Hotten who was know 
for this type of thing in this time period. The title page states 
"With Twenty Additional New Illustrations" and the cover title label 
indicates "Dore & Siegel / Illustrations" The additional 
illustrations are likely by William Siegel who was active from 1920 
to 1930 and whose engravings would complement those by Dore. The 
translator is not stated, but text appears to be the Thomas Urquhart 
and Peter Motteux translation. In black cloth over boards. Title 
labels pasted down to front and spine. Uncut. No DJ, believed 
as-issued. Fun, ribald stories accompanied by equally fun engraved 
plates and cuts. VG-, but good-looking with clean pages.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Lesbia Brandon, The Falcon Press, 1952, 
1st Edition Thus, 2nd Printing, Hardcover, Thick 8vo  8" to 9" tall, 
583 pp., VG/ VG, Offsetting to front endpaper. Two tiny foxed spots 
to fore edge of text block. Spine ends bumped and rubbed, all corners 
rubbed. Light spot to upper rear corner. Spine lightly-sunned. 
Swinburne's incomplete, semi-autobiographical, posthumously published 
novel  "together with an historical and critical commentary being 
largely a study (and elevation) of Swinburne as a novelist."

The title 'Lesbia Brandon' is not Swinburne's, since he did not title 
the manuscript, but was the name of a central character and was used 
by either Wise or Gosse as a working title for bibliographic 
purposes. Possibly privately published by Gosse approximately 1877. 
About sixty percent of the text is critical analysis, notes, and 
commentary by Randolph Hughes, and the book is primarily an analysis 
of Swinburn rather than being an edition of his unfinished manuscript.

Appendices are fragments of the unfinished  "Reginald Harewood" and 
"Herbert Winwood."  Half title. Red cloth over boards. Gilt title to 
spine. Copyright page has a hand-cancel in ink marker to the first 
edition's rights statement: ink has a bit of offsetting to the 
opposite leaf. VG in a VG DJ, the latter now in mylar. A clean, nice 
copy. Essential for the researcher looking into Swinburn's life and work.
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