One sees, therefore, how varied were the sources whence he drew, and how many of them must probably always escape us.
When, as has been done for Moliere, a critical bibliography of the works relating to Rabelais is drawn up--which, by the bye, will entail a very great amount of labour--the easiest part will certainly be the bibliography of the old editions.

That is the section that has been most satisfactorily and most completely worked out.

M.Brunet said the last word on the subject in his Researches in 1852, and in the important article in the fifth edition of his Manuel du Libraire (iv., 1863, pp.

1037-1071).
The facts about the fifth book cannot be summed up briefly.

It was printed as a whole at first, without the name of the place, in 1564, and next year at Lyons by Jean Martin.