Michel de MONTAIGNE
Les Essais
Chez Jean Berthelin|à Rouen s. d. [1619]|10.50 x 17 cm|relié
New edition listed by Sayce and Maskell (A Descriptive Bibliography of Montaigne's Essais 1580-1700, London, 1983) as number 22, type “Rouen B”. Another edition also appeared in Rouen the same year, published by Angot.
A very rare edition with a different frontispiece to previous editions, a portrait of Montaigne at head. The edition was divided between Jacques Besongne, Nicolas Angot, Jean Berthelin, and probably other publishers in Rouen” (Tchemerzine, p. 422).
The frontispiece title was finely engraved by Honervogt and has the “eumdo” error instead of “mundo.”
A portrait of the author by Thomas de Leu is bound in at the front of the volume.<
A very rare edition with a different frontispiece to previous editions, a portrait of Montaigne at head. The edition was divided between Jacques Besongne, Nicolas Angot, Jean Berthelin, and probably other publishers in Rouen” (Tchemerzine, p. 422).
The frontispiece title was finely engraved by Honervogt and has the “eumdo” error instead of “mundo.”
A portrait of the author by Thomas de Leu is bound in at the front of the volume.<
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