<p>Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Leather Bound. Like New. 0x0x0. 1979 Hardcover Leather Bound Edition. Gilt text block cover art and lettering on spine. Pages unmarked.</p> Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library hardcover
London: Reeves and Turner 1877. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A smart set of the essays of Michel De Montaigne complete in three volumes. With a frontispiece to each volume. In the publisher's original cloth. The essays and letters of famous French renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Translated to English by Charles Cotton. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. First edited by Hazlitt in 1842.The collection of essays were originally published between approximately 1570 and 1592 and include a vast array of topics from religion and philosophy to drunkenness cruelty and idleness. An important collection of works. In the publisher's original red cloth. Externally generally smart with bumping to the head and tail of the spine resulting in loss to the cloth. Marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot heavier to the first and last few pages. Pages roughly cut. Ink stamp and library location for The Hillside School to front free endpaper of all volumes. Bookseller label to front paste down of all volumes. Ink library location to half title of all volumes. Very Good Reeves and Turner hardcover
Literary Guild Doubleday January 1947. Hardcover. Used - Good. We are an independent family-owned bookshop in Dover OH. If you want to make sure you are getting the exact edition you are looking for please contact us before ordering. Thank you for your support! You can check out all our listings at our online shop at www.ohbibliophile.com. Literary Guild, Doubleday hardcover
New York: Edwin C. Hill 1910. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A smart translated edition of the essays of Michel de Montaigne limited to one thousand and fifty copies. Nine volumes of a ten volume set lacking volume one. Limited to ten hundred and fifty copies of which this is number three hundred and five. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece in colour and in black-and white a title vignette and three plates. Collated complete. The essays of Michel de Montaigne one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. The Essays which are contained in three books and one hundred and seven chapters of varying length exercised an important influence on both French and English literature in thought and style. Translated by Charles Cotton an English poet and writer best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from French. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt an English lawyer bibliographer editor and writer. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. The odd mark to the board with light fading to the spines. Minor loss to the odd spine label. Front hinge starting but firm to volumes four and ten. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Some of the text block remains unopened to volume eight. Very Good Edwin C. Hill hardcover
Navarre Society 1923. 5 volumes Translated by Charles Cotton. Attractive uniform original binding some browning to the spines in particular. Bookstore blindstamp in front of each volume. a touch of damp on foreedge of volume 5. Navarre Society unknown
The Heritage Press 1946. Hardcover. Good. All 3 Volumes included with individual slipcases. Slipcases show some rubbing scuffing discoloration and edge corner and wear including some chipping tearing and wear. Books themselves show some light discoloration from age and some very light shelf wear. The Heritage Press hardcover
London: T. Basset at the George in Fleet Street and M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman in Westminster-Hall 1685. Good. <p data-start="565" data-end="794">Three volumes.<br data-start="579" data-end="582" /> Volume I: London printed for T. Basset at the George in Fleet Street and M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman in Westminster-Hall 1685.<br data-start="713" data-end="716" /> Volume II: same printers dated 1686.<br data-start="753" data-end="756" /> Volume III: same printers dated 1685.<br /> <br /> Each volume in contemporary full calf now showing pronounced wear. Spines are cracked with losses along the joints and headcaps and boards are loose or detached in places as shown. Leather is dry with surface losses and darkening. Red spine labels “VOL. I†“VOL. II†“VOL. III†remain legible. The engraved portrait frontispiece of Montaigne appears in Volumes I and II. Text blocks appear complete with gatherings intact and no missing leaves visible in the provided openings. Pages show even toning and scattered foxing typical of the period. Early handwritten names appear at several title-page headers. One endpaper in Volume III shows old water staining limited to the edge. No modern repairs are visible. Custom modern clamshell cases—one for each volume—are included and appear unused.<br /> <br /> This is the celebrated first complete English translation of Montaigne by Charles Cotton a landmark in early modern philosophy and essay writing. Cotton’s translation shaped the English-speaking world’s understanding of Montaigne for more than two centuries and influenced later essayists from Addison and Johnson to Emerson. Complete 17th-century sets survive but are increasingly uncommon and sets retaining the engraved portraits are valued for their integrity. The accompanying custom clamshell cases enhance stability and long-term preservation particularly given the original bindings’ fragility.<br /> <br /> Early handwritten owner names on the title pages. No bookplates visible. The bindings suggest long private ownership. The modern custom cases indicate more recent stewardship by a collector attentive to conservation needs. Store case 2.</p> . T. Basset at the George in Fleet Street, and M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman in Westminster-Hall unknown
Reeves & Turner 1902. Leather Bound. Used - Good. Three quarter bound tan leather with green buckram gilt decorative and informative stamping gilted and deckle edged book block. Moderate wear/scuffing to buckram and leather covers with piece torn from raised band of vol I and worn corners on all volumes yellowing to all book blocks with shadowing from leather at edges pages otherwise clean and square bindings good. Reeves & Turner hardcover
Rome: A Rome Et se trouve a Paris Chez Le Jay 1774. Hardcover - as published. third volume only Leather binding gilt decorated spine with floral motif and brown labels; 1/2" square chip at base of spine. 32mo. Decorative end-papers. Very little browning; foxing on ffep only; binding is remarkably tight. Montaigne's description of the customs of Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. With this third volume his travels written in Italian begin accompanied by French translation on the facing pages: an early example of a bilingual text. A Rome Et se trouve a Paris, Chez Le Jay hardcover
BOUQUINS 2023. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. BOUQUINS paperback
Bookseller reference : G2382924144I4N00 ISBN : 2382924144 9782382924143
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Withi hardcover
Bookseller reference : ria9781017129328_inp ISBN : 1017129320 9781017129328
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Withi hardcover
Bookseller reference : ria9781016634427_inp ISBN : 1016634420 9781016634427
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