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Les essais / de Michel seigneur de Montaigne.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592, author.; Gournay, Marie Le Jars de, 1565-1645.; Toler, Grace, Baroness Norwood, 1758?-1822, former owner.; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.; Doreau, Jean, active 1602-1603, printer.
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Title
Les essais / de Michel seigneur de Montaigne.
Edition
Edition nouuelle, prise sur l'exemplaire trouué apres le deces de l'autheur, reueu & augmenté d'vn tiers outre les precedentes impressions.
Created/published
A Leyden : Par Jehan Doreau, 1602.
Description
[8], 1,031, [1] p. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592, author.
Gournay, Marie Le Jars de, 1565-1645.
Toler, Grace, Baroness Norwood, 1758?-1822, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Doreau, Jean, active 1602-1603, printer.
Note
Edited by Marie Le Jars de Gournay.

One of two 1602 Leiden eds., differing in collation and spelling of printer's forename on title page Cf. Sayce & Maskell.

Signatures: ã⁴, A-3S⁸, 3T⁴ (2C4 signed 2C3; 2M2 signed M2).
Cited/described in
Sayce & Maskell. Montaigne's Essais, 11
Place of creation/publication
Netherlands -- Leiden.

Call number
PQ1641 .A1 1602 Cage
Folger-specific note
Grace Toler, Baroness Norwood-W.T. Smedley copy.