The essayes or Morall, politike and millitarie discourses of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne... The first [-third] booke
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Type of record: Book
Title: The essayes or Morall, politike and millitarie discourses of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne... The first [-third] booke
Other titles: Essais
Classmark: BC Lt q/MON
Creator(s): Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
Additional creator(s): Florio, John (1553?-1625) (Other)
Related people: Florio, John
Publisher: By Val. Sims for Edward Blount dwelling in Paules church-yard
Publication city: Printed at London
Date(s): 1603
Language: English
Size and medium: 10 p.l., 179, [7], 193-450, [7], 475-664 (i.e. 662), [3] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/276776
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000410009705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition, in early state, with no errata slip "vyle" over "towns" on line 25, B1r, and with the erroneous headline "The epistle" on A2v. For minor points of difference between various copies see the Pforzheimer catalogue, no. 378.
The title occupies both recto and verso of the title-leaf. Books 2-3 have individual half-titles.
Signatures: A⁸ [par.]² B-Q⁶ R⁴ S-Pp⁶ Qq-Rr⁴ (Qq4 blank) Ss-Kkkk⁶ (Hhh2 signed Ggg2).
Pages 485-486 omitted in numbering.
Iohn Florio appears on verso of title-page.
Indexed in: STC 18041.
Additional description
With contemporary inscription E libris Willi ffothergill de Cliffords Jnn prtij 4s on fly leaf and signature Wm Vmfrevile scored through
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