Gd.3.19
Les essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne..
Essais de Michel Seignevr de Montaigne..
Caption title: Autheur au lecteur
Running title: Essais de Michel de Montaigne
Edition Nouuelle. Corrigee & augmentee d'vn tiers outre les premiers impressions: plus la via de l'autheur, extraicte de ses propres escrits..
A Paris, : Chez la veufue Remy Dallin, au mont & Image Sainct Hilaire., M.DC.XXV. [1625]
[52], 129, 120-574, 579-809, [2], 810-840, 851-1039, [3], 87, 86-101, [1] p. ; 23 cm (4to)
"Preface sur les essais de Michel, seigneur de Montaigne. Par sa fille d'alliance" -- caption title on leaf ũ1r. Sa fille d'alliance = Marie le Jers de Gournay.
First issued in de Gournay's edition in 1595; in 1617 she added her French translation of Montaigne's Latin quotations, which appear at the end of this 1625 edition.
"L'autheur au lecteur" has caption title on leaf 6I4r.
Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ² ũ² [par.]-7[par.]² *⁴ A-H⁸ I-6I⁴ a-n⁴.
Errata on leaf 7[par.]2v.
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Contemporary parchment; Yapp edges; ms. spine title faintly visible; text block edges sprinkled red and blue.
Ms. on title-page: "ma: jy" and "H. Gesse".
Previous shelfmark: Fi.1.10.
Philosophy Early works to 1800.
Dallin, Rémy bookseller.
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
France Paris.
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