Bibliographic Details
| Author / Creator: | Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
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| Uniform title: | Essais. English
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| Imprint: | Printed at London : By Val. Sims for Edward Blount dwelling in Paules churchyard, 1603.
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| Description: | [20], 179, [9], 193-450, [10], 475-484, 487-664, [4] pages ; 29 cm (fol.)
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| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print
Book
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| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's Rege c.1 issued lacking the following: commendatory verses by Sam Danyel to John Florio and errors and omissions ([par. 1-2]), and 4 pages of errata at the end. Does not have correction slip reading "vyle" pasted over the word "towns" on p.1, line 25.
University of Chicago Library's Rare c.2 issued including the commendatory verses by Sam Danyel to John Florio and errors and omissions ([par.]1-2), and the correction slip reading "vyle" pasted over the word "towns" on p.1, line 25. Lacking 4 pages of errata at the end.
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5133190 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Essayes
Morall, politike and millitarie discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne
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| Other authors / contributors: | Florio, John, 1553?-1625, translator.
Simmes, Valentine, active 1585-1622, printer.
Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller.
Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.), binder.
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| Provenance: | Rege copy 1: Former owner's signature on title page: Gavin Mitchell, 1768.
Rege copy 1: Manuscript corrections throughout by translator John Florio; may be a presentation copy from the translator lacking a presentation leaf.
Rege copy 1: Binding: 20th-century brown morocco over boards; gold tooled laurel wreath on front board; raised bands; inner dentelles; gilt edges; closely trimmed with occasional loss of text to page heads; binder's signature: The Lakeside Press, Chicago.
Rare copy 2: Binding: 20th-century calf over boards with blind tooled panels; raised bands and brown morocco lettering piece on spine; early red stained edges; binder's signature: Lamb & Buck.
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| Notes: | A translation of: Essais.
First word of title is xylographic.
Title page continues onto verso.
Books 2 and 3 each has separate dated title page on leaves R1r and 2R1r, respectively; register is continuous.
Signatures: A⁸ [par.]² B-Q⁶ R⁴ S-2P⁶ 2Q-2R⁴ 2S-3I⁶ 3K⁴ [3L]²; 2Q4 blank.
Preliminaries include gathering [par.]² following A8. [Par.]1 bears a poem to John Florio; [par.]2 bears errors and omissions; these 2 leaves are frequently lacking.
Two errata leaves, preliminary pages [19] and [20].
"Entered to E. Aggas 20 October 1595; to E. Blount 4 June 1600"--ESTC.
English short title catalogue, S111839 http://estc.bl.uk/S111839
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 18041
Luborsky, R.S. Guide to English illustrated books, 1536-1603, 18041
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 378
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