MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem, sieur de (1533-1592). Les essais... Edition nouvelle prise sur l'exemplaire trouvé apres le deces de l'autheur. Leiden: Iean Doreau, 1602. 8° (163 x 102mm). With the blank leaf d8. (Flaw in D1 with loss of a few letters, discoloured throughout to a greater or lesser extent.) Contemporary vellum (lacks ties).
This edition adds a subject index and also an index of Montaigne's life tirée de ses essais which first appear in L'Angelier's edition of the same year. Some copies of the present edition bear the imprint Cologni instead of Leiden, leading Sayce & Maskell to deduce that this edition was printed at Geneva. Sayce & Maskell 12a.
MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem, sieur de (1533-1592). Les essais... Edition nouvelle prise sur l'exemplaire trouvé apres le deces de l'autheur. Leiden: Iean Doreau, 1602. 8° (163 x 102mm). With the blank leaf d8. (Flaw in D1 with loss of a few letters, discoloured throughout to a greater or lesser extent.) Contemporary vellum (lacks ties).
This edition adds a subject index and also an index of Montaigne's life tirée de ses essais which first appear in L'Angelier's edition of the same year. Some copies of the present edition bear the imprint Cologni instead of Leiden, leading Sayce & Maskell to deduce that this edition was printed at Geneva. Sayce & Maskell 12a.
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