Montaigne, Journal du voyage en Italie, par la Suisse... Rome and Paris, 1774, marbled wrappers

Michel de Montaigne

Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581; avec des notes par M. de Querlon. Rome and Paris: Le Jay, 1774

4to (305 x 225mm.), half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Montaigne, small woodcut of St Peter's Basilica on title-page, leaf C2 a cancel (signed C2*), old marbled wrappers, UNCUT, last few leaves slightly soiled with marginal repairs, wrappers slightly repaired with later stiff flyleaves

Montaigne's account of his journey through Italy remained unpublished until 1774, when it appeared in both duodecimo and quarto editions.