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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de [John Florio, trans.]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Essayes Written in French. London: Printed by Melch[ior] Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613
- paper
Small folio (11 x 7 in.; 280 x 178 mm). Woodcut headpiece on title, engraved portrait of the translator on a plate facing the text, woodcut head-, tailpieces, and decorative initials, with final blank leaf; some side-notes shaved near the end. Contemporary blind-ruled calf; rebacked with original spine laid down, some scrapes and scuffmarks.
Provenance
John Aston (signature on title) — Allerton C. Hickmott (pencil note on front flyleaf). Acquisition: Seven Gables, 1963
Literature
STC 18042; ESTC S111840; see Pforzheimer 378 (citing first edition)
Condition
some side-notes shaved near the end. Contemporary blind-ruled calf; rebacked with original spine laid down, some scrapes and scuffmarks.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Second edition. “For Shakespeare — and not for Shakespeare alone but for virtually all of his English contemporaries — Montaigne was Florio’s Montaigne. His essays, in their rich Elizabethan idiom and wildly inventive turns of phrase, constitute the way Montaigne spoke to Renaissance England” (Stephen Greenblatt in The Telegraph, 7 June 2014).