Item Detail
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Guildford : Billing and Son, printers
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74
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Besant, Walter (ed.)
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Recreations of the Rabelais Club
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2 volumes, 4to
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original white cloth (a bit grubby)
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London
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1880-1; 1885-8
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23 cm.
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820.6 R112r vol.1,3
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Frontispiece (a menu) and one illustration by George du Marier, 100 copies privately printed. Besant was the founder of this club and almost certainly the editor of these publications. There were three in all during the Club's ten year existence. Many distinguished Victorians were members, among them Hardy, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry James, Longfellow, Lowell, and Stevenson.