Essayes vvritten in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne, Knight of the Order of S. Michael, gentleman of the French Kings chamber: done into English, according to the last French edition, by Iohn Florio reader of the Italian tongue vnto the Soueraigne Maiestie of Anna, Queene of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. And one of the gentlemen of hir royall priuie chamber.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Category
Books
Date
1613
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3102548
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],630,[2]p. : port. (metal cut) ; fol. Extensive contemporary annotations throughout. Printed shelfmark label: Case N Shelf 5. [i.e.: a Lyme Park book].. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119).. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf; gilt centre-piece stamp to upper and lower boards; rebacked, spine entirely replaced; sewn onto five raised supports; green spine label: Montaigne's Essayes. Florio; Nineteenth-century gilt crest on spine: Ram's head [i.e.: a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) John Florio (1553-1625). William Hole (d.1624)