Shelfmark
Gd.3.19
Author
Title
Les essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne..
Varying form of title
Essais de Michel Seignevr de Montaigne..
Varying form of title
Caption title: Autheur au lecteur
Varying form of title
Running title: Essais de Michel de Montaigne
Edition
Edition Nouuelle. Corrigee & augmentee d'vn tiers outre les premiers impressions: plus la via de l'autheur, extraicte de ses propres escrits..
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez la veufue Remy Dallin, au mont & Image Sainct Hilaire., M.DC.XXV. [1625]
Physical description
[52], 129, 120-574, 579-809, [2], 810-840, 851-1039, [3], 87, 86-101, [1] p. ; 23 cm (4to)
Note
"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.
Note
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.
Note
"L'autheur au lecteur" has caption title on leaf 6I4r.
Note
Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ² ũ² [par.]-7[par.]² *⁴ A-H⁸ I-6I⁴ a-n⁴.
Note
Errata on leaf 7[par.]2v.
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary parchment; Yapp edges; ms. spine title faintly visible; text block edges sprinkled red and blue.
Copy-specific note
Ms. on title-page: "ma: jy" and "H. Gesse".
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fi.1.10.
Subject
Philosophy Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Essays.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Dallin, Rémy bookseller.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B47795