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[LITERATURE] - RABELAIS, François / LEFRANC, Abel (Ed.) The Works of François Rabelais. A critical edition edited by Abel Lefranc, Jacques Boulenger, Henri Clouzot, Paul Dorveaux, Jean Plattard, and Lazare Sainéan Paris, Honoré and Édouard Champion, 1912–1931, 5 volumes In-4°. Paperback, with original printed covers featuring flaps. An absolute and monumental reference edition, unanimously regarded by scholars of the 16th century as the most significant and rigorous critical edition of Rabelais ever undertaken. Published under the auspices of the Société des Études rabelaisiennes, this encyclopedic work seeks to “unfold” Rabelais’s genius within the very fabric of his era, deciphering his humanism, his enigmas, and his verbal inventions. The critical apparatus, a testament to colossal scholarship, provides indispensable historical, philological, and geographical notes. Our first-printing set brings together the five volumes published during this initial editorial period (covering the text up to the end of the Tiers Livre): • Volumes I and II (1912–1913): *Gargantua* • Volumes III and IV (1922): *Pantagruel* • Volume V (1931): *Le Tiers Livre* A sixth volume, the Fourth Book, would not be published until much later, in 1955, by Librairie Droz after the Society’s work had been suspended. A limited and numbered edition printed on fine laid paper.