Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne. :. Edition nouvelle, trouvée après le décèds de l'Autheur, reveue & augmentée par luy d'un tiers plus qu'aux précédentes Impressions.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Category
Books
Date
1595
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3247475
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 523, [1], 231, [1] p. ;. fol. Provenance: ink inscriptions (signatures and mottos) on front free endpaper: (i) 'Davenport Talbot' [i.e. William Davenport Talbot (1764-1800)]; (ii) 'aecde aliquid se vis esse aliquis S Littleton […]' [unidentified; late seventeenth-century hand]; (iii) 'overcome by nothing but love F Littleton […] ' [unidentified; late seventeenth-century hand]; (iii) 'My love my life Shar: Talbot' [i.e. Sharington Talbot (d.1677)]. Binding: sixteenth-century, probably French in board binding with full cover of calf parchment; triple blind fillet to form a border with large central block; spine with six raised bands (double alum-tawed sewing supports); ms spine title in second compartment 'Montaigne'; remains of two pairs of green silk ties at the fore-edge.
Makers and roles
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) Sonnius, Michel