[Rarebooks] fa: THE WORKS OF FRANCIS RABELAIS - 4 vols. 1807

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Listed now, auction ending Sunday, November 17. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Francois Rabelais; [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Motteux, John Ozell, trans.]: The Works of Francis Rabelais. Translated from the French. With Explanatory Notes, by Du Chat, Motteux, Ozell, and others. London: Printed for Lackington [et al], 1807. Four volumes, 8vo (21 cm) in early/period half calf and marbled boards; portrait frontispiece.

Bindings with rubbing to the spines and edges, front board of vol. I loose and held by a single cord, spine labels misnumbered; contents with scattered foxing, most noticeable on the first and last few leaves, else quite clean and bright; early owner's signature to two of the title-pages, later bookplates of W. T. Marriott.