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MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE. Les Essais . . . Nouvelle Edition. Title printed in red and black, with Estienne woodcut device. [32], 840 [i. e., 834], [41] pages, including engraved additional title. Folio, 357x226 mm, contemporary vellum boards; scattered insignificant marginal foxing and dampstains along top edges. wide-margined copy. Paris: Simeon Piget, 1652
Issue with the imprint of Piget, one of 10 booksellers associated with this edition. "Printed by Henri Estienne, whose preface advertises the novelty of this edition, namely both summaries of the text and translations of the Latin quotations in the margins"--Sayce & Maskell 30(j). Tchemerzine (1977) IV, 902.
