Item #55481 [Navarre Society Illustrated Classics]. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle. [and] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. [and] The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. [and] The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. le Roux de Lincy, with an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A., also the Original Seventy-three full-page Engravings Designed by S. Freudenberg, and One hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. [and] The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton, reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. [and] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New Married Couple. CERVANTES, CASANOVA, MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE, RABELAIS, APHRA BOCCACCIO, Behn, Thomas SHELTON, Antoine GAYMARD, W. Heath ROBINSON, J. M. RIGG, Louis CHALON, John HARVEY, introduces.
[Navarre Society Illustrated Classics]. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle. [and] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. [and] The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. [and] The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. le Roux de Lincy, with an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A., also the Original Seventy-three full-page Engravings Designed by S. Freudenberg, and One hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. [and] The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton, reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. [and] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New Married Couple.

[Navarre Society Illustrated Classics]. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle. [and] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. [and] The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. [and] The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. le Roux de Lincy, with an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A., also the Original Seventy-three full-page Engravings Designed by S. Freudenberg, and One hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. [and] The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton, reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. [and] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New Married Couple.

London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1921-1923. [Private Press Classics] SIX LIMITED EDITION TITLES, collected in fourteen volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 65cm). All text in English. Each volume with various engraved illustrations, title pages printed in two colours. Each set strictly limited and printed on fine laid paper. Publisher's cream buckram with gilt titles to spines and gilt decoration to boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. All volumes with the uniform plain grey dust-jacket, priced to spine. Some expected off-setting and spotting to text, some bindings with cloth spotted, a few minor tears to jackets but in essence a fine, fresh collection which has survived remarkably well. Housed in two bespoke black cloth slip-cases with double ribbon pulls. A charming presentation of these illustrated literary classics. Item #55481

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