The essayes, or, Morall, politike and millitarie discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne ..

Alternate Title:

Essayes; Morall, politike and millitarie discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne

Contributor:

Simmes, Valentine, active 1585-1622 (printer); Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632 (bookseller)

Name:

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592; Florio, John, 1553?-1625

Date:

1603

Language:

English

Provenance:

Paul, John Dennis (label); Parnther, John, b. 1706 or 7 (bookplate); Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree); Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor); Turner, Justin G. (stamp); Justin G. Turner Collection (stamp)

Publisher:

By Val. Sims for Edward Blount ..

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 193-450 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 475-664 pages, 4 unnumbered pages; 27 cm (folio)

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Translated by John Florio.; In three parts. Book 2 has special dated title page on leaf R1r; book 3 has special dated title page on leaf 2R1r; signatures are continuous.; Signatures: A⁸ [par.]² B-Q⁶ R⁴ S-2P⁶ 2Q-2R⁴ 2S-3I⁶ 3K⁴ [3L]².; Leaf 2Q4 is blank.; "Preliminaries include quire [par.]² following A8. [Par.]1 bears a poem to John Florio; [par.]2 bears errors and omissions; these 2 leaves are frequently lacking."--ESTC.; For collation see Pforzheimer catalogue, I, 362-4.; First word of title is xylographic.; Woodcuts: initials, head- and tail-pieces.; Printed marginalia.; Contains commendatory verses signed Sam: Danyel. "These verses are frequently wanting--the three British Museum copies lack them."--Pforzheimer, I, 363 n.; Errata on last two printed leaves.; Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 895:16 on UMI microfilm.; This copy lacks correction slip over word 'towns,' line 25 of B1r.; Penn Libraries copy has covers detached; leaves closely cropped at outer margins with damage to many side-notes; a few wormholes in bottom margin throughout; title leaf and leaves A2, A3, [par.]1, and B1-B3 mended at bottom and inner margins; leaves A4-A8, [par.]2, B6 and C1 mended at inner margin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Folio PQ1642.E5 F6 1603

Collection:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania); English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania)