The essayes, or, Morall, politike, and militarie discourses of Lord Michael de Montaigne, Knight of the noble Order of Saint Michael, and one of the gentlemen in ordinary of the French Kings chamber.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French into English by John Florio. |
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London :
Printed by M. Flesher for Rich Royston, in Ivie-lane next the exchequer office,
MDCXXXII [1632]
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| Edition: | The third edition / |
| Item Description: | Additional engraved architectural t.p. signed: Martin. Dr[oeshout]. sculpsit; the second and third book have additional title-pages, dated 1631. P. 626 and 631 are incorrectly numbered. Aa3 signed A3; gathering Zz signed Zzz. First signature is as follows: "'To the beholder' [1]; typographic title page [2]; dedication to the Queen of Denmark [3]; To the Reader [4] signed A3; second half of poem by Sam Daniel and the beginning of 'Concerning the Honour of Books' [5]; second page of table [6]." -- bookseller's description. Some copies have a variant state of the t.p. with the misprint "ad" in place of "an" in the phrase "whereunto is now newly added an index". The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy has an abbreviated version of the title printed on the fore-edge. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy contains one piece of ephemera and the bookseller's description. BiP. |
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| Physical Description: | 14 unnumbered pages, 161, that is, 631 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 29 cm. (folio) |
| Production Credits: | Dedicatory poem by Samuel Daniel. |