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Excerpt from Rabelais, Vol. 2: The Five Books and Minor Writings; Together With Letters Documents Illustrating His Life Of the Fourth Book there were two editions issued by Rabelais: 1548. A. At Lyons, without the printer's name, but probably printed by P. de Tours. This imperfect edition contains the Old Prologue only, not the Epistle to the Cardinal of Chtillon or the New Prologue. 1552. B. Published by Michael Fezandat, Paris. In addition to what is contained in A, B contains chapters xxv-Ixvii. The first 25 chapters of B are represented by II only in A. To the II chapters of A are added in B the purchases at the Fair of Medamothi, the arrival of Malicorne, the letters of Gargantua and Pantagruel, and the whole story of the Lord of Basch and the Catch-pole. There are also in B additions to the story of Dindenault and the Tempest In the nine last leaves of B are a number of explanatory notes, entitled Briefve dclaration d'aulcunes dictions plus obscures continues on quatriesme livre des faicts et diets heroicques de Pantagruel. It is almost certain that these notes were written by Rabelais. They are now and then serviceable in explaining the text The edition of the first four Books, together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, published in 1553, deserves mention as being very fairly correct Without name of place or printer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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