Ana Maria Pacheco
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Artist’s Book with ten original woodcuts. Sets 1-20 from a total edition of 30 are bound in book form, signed and numbered on colophon page: 1/20 – 20/20, with text extracts from Francois Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel. English text from Books I-V, published by Gibbings and Company Limited, London, 1897; original French text from Rabelais-oeuvres completes coll. l’Integrale Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1973.
Woodcuts: block size 12.5 x 10.4 cm | 5 x 4⅛ in; printed on Zerkall Halbmatt 145gsm.
Text set in Caslon Old Face and printed letterpress. Full linen case binding.
Published: Pratt Contemporary, 1994. see prints