De Montaigne, Michel; Cotton, Charles [Translator]; Hazlitt, William Carew

ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE [Six Volumes]

London: Navarre Society, 1923. First Edition Thus. Octavos, six volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jackets. Dust jackets wrapped in mylar. Spines are grey with black lettering. Moderate shelfwear and tanning to all dust jacket spines and covers. Mild creasing, tearing, and scraping to heads and tails of spines and top and bottom edges of covers. Volume 1 has minor soiling to right edge of front cover and ink stain to right flap of dust jacket. Volume 5 has moderate tearing along length of spine of dust jacket and cropped dust jacket flaps.

Boards are white with gilt lettering and tooling on spines and fleur-de-lis on front covers. Mild foxing to boards with significant soiling to boards of volumes two, three, and five. Bumping to fore-edges.

Top edges gilt, with slight scratching. Age toning to textblock. Tanning to free edges of all volumes. Tissue paper protecting engraved portrait present at the beginning of each volume. Textblocks clean. Page tipped in between pages xcviii and xcix in volume one excised. Copy of letter in Montaigne's handwriting tipped in after page cix. Silk ribbons in each volume leaving mild offset marks. Shelved above U.S. Politics.

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Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $500

NOTES

In addition to Montaigne's essays, the Navarre Society included a biography of Montaigne, notes, a translation of all of his known letters, an index, and an engraved portrait of Montaigne placed at the beginning of each volume in this set. This set of Montaigne's essays was privately printed by the Navarre Society, a small British publisher who printed limited edition runs of other classics listed on the back dust jacket cover of each volume.