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Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.3)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.3)

Other titles: Essais

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/MON

Creator(s): Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)

Additional creator(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687) (Other)

Related people: Cotton, Charles

Publisher: Printed for T. Basset... and M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1685-1686

Language: English

Size and medium: 3 v

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280160

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001146539705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Title page of v. 2 reads: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / new rendred into English by Charles Cotton... (imprint date is 1686); v. 3: Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / made English by Charles Cotton ... (imprint date is 1685).


Vol. 1: [20], 638 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 725 [i.e. 727], [1] p.; v. 3: [4], 573, [1] p.


Vol. 2: 40p inserted between p.384 (Bb⁸) and p.385 (Cc), signed Cc-Dd⁸, Ee⁴ in italics, pagination 369-400 (irregular), 415-422. The text of the volume is continuous.


Indexed in: Wing M2479.

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This copy, (like that in the Bibliothèque Nationale) wants the portrait for volume three

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