Paris, chez Augustin Courbé, 1652.
Folio of (16) ll. including a frontispiece, 834 pp. (misnumbered 840), (21) ll., small lack of paper at the corner of p. 523 not affecting the text. Contemporary speckled calf decorated in the style of Du Seuil, richly decorated spine, marbled edges. Contemporary binding.
383 x 260 mm.
“A fine edition based on the 1635 edition; the translations are placed opposite the text for the first time. It was divided between Augustin Courbé, Pierre Rocolet, Et. Loyson, Edme Couterot, Pierre Le Petit, Th. Jolly, Sébastien Huré, etc.” (Tchermerzine, IV, 902).
This is the third folio edition.
It includes the “Epistle of Miss de Gournay” and her preface.
“Although many liberties were taken with it, the text is essentially that of the last edition of Miss de Gournay published in 1635, which reappears (…) for the first time. ” In Les Essais de Montaigne Exhibition Bordeaux Municipal Library, 1980-1981.
It is adorned with the famous frontispiece portrait of Montaigne engraved in intaglio.
Attractive copy, wide-margined, preserved in its contemporary binding.
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