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BRUNET, Jacques-Charles-(1780-1867).] Notice sur deux anciens romans initulés Les Chroniques de Gargantua, ou l'on examine les rapports qui existent entre ces deux ouvrages et le Gargantua de Rabelais. Paris: A. Pinard for Silvestre, December 1834. 8 o (230 x 145 mm). 22 leaves. PRINTED ON VELLUM, the only copy. Gothic, roman and italic types. Blind-tooled dark-brown morocco, multiple gilt fillets on turn-ins, signed Pagnant, gilt edges. Provenance : the author (1868 sale, lot 429). UNIQUE COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM for the famous bibliographer, numbered 1 in the press. Fifty-nine other copies were issued on various large or special papers, the only ones to contain the "drôleries" extracted from the Chroniques admirables de Gargantua ".