Shelfmark
Ldd.2.48
Author
Collective uniform title
Works. Selections. English
Title
Hours with Rabelais / edited by F. G. Stokes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Methuen & Co., 1905.
Physical description
xxv, [1], 374, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 19 cm.
Note
"The translation is based on that of Urquhart and Motteux."--Editor's pref.
Note
Frontispiece: photogravure portrait from painting in the Library at Geneva.
Note
Publisher's red linen boards; decorative spine title and cover title blocked in gilt; untrimmed fore-edges.
Provenance
Presentation copy from F. W. Harvey to Ivor Gurney inscribed on front flyleaf "wishing him many happy returns of the day - at Minsterworth" dated 28 August 1919; and inside front cover, "I.B.G. from F.W.H. 28/8/1919". Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957) was at King's School, Gloucester with Gurney; both enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment.
Binding
Clear protective polyseter dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
Bound as issued with 40-pp. publisher's catalogue dated September 1908.
Subject
French literature Fiction.
Genre/Form
Presentation inscriptions.
Added entry--name
Stokes, Francis Griffin editor.
Added entry--name
Urquhart, Thomas, 1611 - 1660 translator.
Added entry--name
Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660 - 1718 translator.
Added entry--name
Gurney, Ivor, 1890 - 1937 former owner.
Added entry--name
Harvey, F. W., 1888 - 1957 former owner.
Added entry--name
Methuen & Co publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B52011