Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne. Donnez Sur las Editions les Pus Anciennes & les Plus Correctes... Avec des Notes; & une Table Generale des Matieres Plus Utile Que Celles Qui Avoient Paru Jusqu'ici. Par Pierre Coste. Nouvelle Edition, Plus Ample & Plus Correcte Que les Dernieres de Londres & de Paris. A La Haye, Chez P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, MDCCXXVII.
Essays by Michel, Lord of Montaigne. Based on the Oldest and Most Accurate Editions... With Notes and a General Index of Topics More Useful Than Those Previously Published. By Pierre Coste. New Edition, More Complete and More Accurate Than the Recent Editions from London and Paris. The Hague, Published by P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1727.
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Provenance:
Gilt crest of the "Camperdown Library" to the front boards and shelf marks in ink to the front pastedown reading "S6-35" to "S6-39".
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Size: 106 x 169 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[frontis, t.p., i-xx (Preface), pp.21-24, xxv-xxxvi (Edition Notice), 4pp. (Contents), 652pp.]; [t.p., 2pp. (contents), 596pp.]; [t.p., 2pp. (Contents), 476pp.]; [t.p., 2pp. (Contents), 583pp.]; [t.p., 2pp. (Contents), 422pp.]
Full brown calf with tooled labels in compartments between raised bands with decorative gilt in other compartments and gilt volume numbers. Tooled label lacking from volume two. Some loss of gilt to spines, primarily volumes one, two and three. All boards attached with rubbing along joints and minor wear to hinges. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges dulled and top page edges darkened as often. No attached bookplates. Ink shelf marks to front pastedowns in all volumes. Edge toning to endpapers as commensurate with the full leather bindings. Text blocks very clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Endpapers foxed.
