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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

Level: Item

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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