12mo. In four volumes. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Recent brown cloth, lettered and stamped in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of William Johnston to head of all titles, later inked ownership inscription of P. Carson to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I.

François Rabelais (c.1494-1553), French renaissance author and physician, whose work focused upon the fantastical, the bawdy, the humorous, the satirical and the frankly outrageous.