{
  "full": "\n**FRANÇOIS RABELAIS. GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL. 1928–1944. (ML 4)**  \n\n#### 162a. First printing (1928)  \n\n[within double rules] GARGANTUA AND | PANTAGRUEL | [rule] | BY | RABELAIS | [rule] | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | DONALD DOUGLAS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xii, [1–2] 3–543 [544–548]. [1–17]16n[18]8  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1928, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1928; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–xii INTRODUCTION signed p. xii: Donald Douglas. | New York, May, 1928.; [1] part title: *The First Book of* | *RABELAIS* | Treating of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings |of Gargantua; [2] blank; 3–543 text; [544] blank; [545–548] ML list. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket C with rules in moderate greenn(145). Text on front: “Intelligently condensed into one volume by Prof.nDonald Douglas of Columbia University.” (*Fall 1928) Note:* The firstnprinting in the imitation leather binding was sold initially in jacket Anand subsequently in jacket B.  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n>Front flap:
  The four books of Rabelais remain forever the four gospels of the  joyous and irredeemable brotherhood of sinners. Against the weariness  of a forbidding morality and the rumbling pretences of its pious  advocates, there is always the wholehearted ribaldry and rollicking  laughter of Rabelais. His gigantic nonsense and his gay and lecherous  love of life give his books the stature and vitality of his own  heroes. The Modern Library version, condensed by Professor Donald  Douglas, is as faithful in spirit as it is intelligent in its  selectiveness. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginal ML abridgment of the Urquhart-Motteux translation. Published September 1928. *WR* 13 October 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1 January 1945 following the publication of *The* *Complete Works* *of Rabelais* (G66).  \n\nThe ML commissioned Douglas to prepare an abridged edition of Rabelais. The manuscript was due in May 1927, but Douglas’s work on it was held up by a succession of bouts with influenza. There were other problems as well. In one letter he told Cerf, “I had worked about six hours a day for a week on Rabelais . . . and then you told me the whole thing must be expurgated” (Douglas to Cerf, 6 October 1927). When he finally submitted the manuscript he exclaimed, “It was the hardest job I ever did in my life” (Douglas to Cerf, 4 January 1928).  \n\nDouglas commented on the expurgation in the introduction: “To cleanse Rabelais (as is done in the present edition) is not, as H. G. Wells would say, like cleaning rabbits for the table. It is like cleaning the immense Augean stables. It is like purifying the fertility of the earth or turning the curious and inventive mind into a glass house for fear of stones. By the laws of our own age it has become necessary and obligatory” (pp. ix–x). Douglas’s edition was superseded in 1944 by *The* *Complete Works* *of Rabelais* (G66) in an unabridged translation by Jacques Le Clercq.  \n\n*Gargantua and Pantagruel* ranked in the middle of the third quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942-1943.  \n\nThe ML plates were used by Walter J. Black, Inc., for an undated printing.  \n\n#### 162b. Title page reset (c. 1940)  \n\nGARGANTUA | AND | PANTAGRUEL | BY | RABELAIS | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION | BY DONALD DOUGLAS | [torchbearer E1] | [rule] | MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 162a.  \n\nContents as 162a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [544–548] blank.  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in vivid yellow (82), dark reddish orange (38), medium gray (265) and black on coated white paper depicting Pantagruel in left profile; title in black and dark reddish orange, author in reverse, series in gray. Signed: E. McKnight Kauffer. \n\n> Front flap as 162a jacket B. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nRabelais, *Complete Works* *of Rabelais*, translated by Jacques Le Clercq (Giant, 1944–1970) G66  \n\n",
  "id": "162",
  "year": "1928",
  "label": "FRANÇOIS RABELAIS. GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL. 1928–1944. (ML 4)",
  "author": "FRANÇOIS RABELAIS",
  "title": "GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL.",
  "date": "1928–1944.",
  "something": "ML 4",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "162a",
      "title": "First printing (1928)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] GARGANTUA AND | PANTAGRUEL | [rule] | BY | RABELAIS | [rule] | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | DONALD DOUGLAS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xii, [1–2] 3–543 [544–548]. [1–17]16n[18]8  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1928, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1928; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–xii INTRODUCTION signed p. xii: Donald Douglas. | New York, May, 1928.; [1] part title: *The First Book of* | *RABELAIS* | Treating of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings |of Gargantua; [2] blank; 3–543 text; [544] blank; [545–548] ML list. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket C with rules in moderate greenn(145). Text on front: “Intelligently condensed into one volume by Prof.nDonald Douglas of Columbia University.” (*Fall 1928) Note:* The firstnprinting in the imitation leather binding was sold initially in jacket Anand subsequently in jacket B.  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n>Front flap:
  The four books of Rabelais remain forever the four gospels of the  joyous and irredeemable brotherhood of sinners. Against the weariness  of a forbidding morality and the rumbling pretences of its pious  advocates, there is always the wholehearted ribaldry and rollicking  laughter of Rabelais. His gigantic nonsense and his gay and lecherous  love of life give his books the stature and vitality of his own  heroes. The Modern Library version, condensed by Professor Donald  Douglas, is as faithful in spirit as it is intelligent in its  selectiveness. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginal ML abridgment of the Urquhart-Motteux translation. Published September 1928. *WR* 13 October 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1 January 1945 following the publication of *The* *Complete Works* *of Rabelais* (G66).  \n\nThe ML commissioned Douglas to prepare an abridged edition of Rabelais. The manuscript was due in May 1927, but Douglas’s work on it was held up by a succession of bouts with influenza. There were other problems as well. In one letter he told Cerf, “I had worked about six hours a day for a week on Rabelais . . . and then you told me the whole thing must be expurgated” (Douglas to Cerf, 6 October 1927). When he finally submitted the manuscript he exclaimed, “It was the hardest job I ever did in my life” (Douglas to Cerf, 4 January 1928).  \n\nDouglas commented on the expurgation in the introduction: “To cleanse Rabelais (as is done in the present edition) is not, as H. G. Wells would say, like cleaning rabbits for the table. It is like cleaning the immense Augean stables. It is like purifying the fertility of the earth or turning the curious and inventive mind into a glass house for fear of stones. By the laws of our own age it has become necessary and obligatory” (pp. ix–x). Douglas’s edition was superseded in 1944 by *The* *Complete Works* *of Rabelais* (G66) in an unabridged translation by Jacques Le Clercq.  \n\n*Gargantua and Pantagruel* ranked in the middle of the third quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942-1943.  \n\nThe ML plates were used by Walter J. Black, Inc., for an undated printing.  \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "162b",
      "title": "Title page reset (c. 1940)  ",
      "full": "\n\nGARGANTUA | AND | PANTAGRUEL | BY | RABELAIS | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION | BY DONALD DOUGLAS | [torchbearer E1] | [rule] | MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 162a.  \n\nContents as 162a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [544–548] blank.  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in vivid yellow (82), dark reddish orange (38), medium gray (265) and black on coated white paper depicting Pantagruel in left profile; title in black and dark reddish orange, author in reverse, series in gray. Signed: E. McKnight Kauffer. \n\n> Front flap as 162a jacket B. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nRabelais, *Complete Works* *of Rabelais*, translated by Jacques Le Clercq (Giant, 1944–1970) G66  \n\n"
    }
  ],
  "type": "book"
}