Essays of Michel de Montaigne............. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of topics...... The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature-a library edition of the Essays of ...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne............. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of topics...... The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature-a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which such minds as those of Bacon and Shakespeare did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman's literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and subsequent. But, at the same time, estimating the value and rank of the essayist, we are not to leave out of the account the drawbacks and the circumstances of the period: the imperfect state of education, the comparative scarcity of books, and the limited opportunities of intellectual intercourse. Montaigne freely borrowed of others, and he has found men willing to borrow of him as freely. We need not wonder at the reputation which he with seeming facility achieved. He was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with unexampled frankness, what its writer's opinion was about men and things, and threw what must have been a strange kind of new light on many matters but darkly understood. Above all, the essayist uncased himself, and made his intellectual and physical organism public property. He took the world into his confidence on all subjects. His essays were a sort of literary anatomy, where we get a diagnosis of the writer's mind, made by himself at different levels and under a large variety of operating influences.
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Dali, Salvadore. Very good. No dust jacket. Ends and corners lightly rubbed & bumped; eps a little foxed; else tight, clean, square; 8vo. 472 p. Includes illustrations. Black cloth w/ 1/4 green buckram; gilt lettering on spine; many gorgeous color plates by Dali; fore-edge uncut
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Good. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. *Has colored illustrations by Salvador Dali* Moderate wear to the boards. Binding is lightly shaken but still intact. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Good+; No jackets. 1892 George Bell & Sons. Second Edition, Revised. Translated by Charles Cotton. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. Bohns' Standard Library edition. Three volumes, complete. Half-bound in blue-green leather over red, blue, brown and cream marbled paper-covered boards. Spines have five raised bands on spine, with small gilt decoration and ruled borders on four panels; two panels have gilt lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. Top page edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black & white frontispiece in vol. 1. Binding circa 1900. Bookseller name Charles E. Lauriat Co. Boston in very small letters at top back edge of front free endpapers. 375 + 522 + 408 pages. NOT ex-library. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Outer edges of leather and spine bands rubbed and chipped. Corners rounded. Covers have moderate surface wear; boards visible at tip. Spines are sun-darkened. Name in ink on second blank fly leaf, dated 1900 on two volumes and 1901 on the last. Small paper label with number on front endpaper of each volume. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Last pair of facing text pages in volume 1 has a mildly darkened rectangle from an envelope stored there for a long time. Spine title: Montaigne's Essays. No dust jackets. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. This item will be shipped with signature confirmation required.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Each volume has a small address label on the front endpaper. 3 v. 20 cm. Head-pieces. "The translation by George B. Ives was first published...in 1925." Vol. 3: Handbook. A three volume set, books issued without dust jackets, each in an individual slipcase.
