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François RABELAIS & Gustave DORE

Oeuvres de Rabelais

Garnier frères, Paris 1873, grand in-folio (33x44cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Edition illustrated with 60 plates by Gustave Dore (29 for the first volume and 31 for the second). Binders green half grief, back smooth decorated with fillets stamped hot and cold and golden jewels, gilded heads, modern bindings. The boards inset and engravings in-text are the work of Gustave Doré and were engraved by his closest collaborators: Pannemaker, Jonnard, Fournier, Pisan, Brugnot Quesnel Deschamps, etc. Huge company considered one of the finest in Gustave Doré, the publication of this illustrated edition wins since its first publication in Bry in 1854, a great success: "Nothing was more difficult than translating the beautiful pencil frenzied mood of the cure of Meudon. Dore spoke truly and reconstituted the entire Middle Ages he borrowed his fantasy and philosophy. They are, in the decoration of fanciful architectures on which échafaudent improbable towers, dungeons crenellated, as curious characters and bloated faces ruddy great ladies flounced. And overlooking this strange world, here Gargantua, child Pantagruel, Panurge, coated with a new personality, living an intense life of their fantasy realm "( Leblanc). The young Gustave was then only 22 years old, and his inventiveness and imagination are not in doubt: it Rabelais will be his first great success of youth, and then illustrate the great works of French and world literature. Beautiful specimen.

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