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Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) trans. John Florio (1552-1625) The Essayes or Morall, Politike, and Militarie Discourses.
London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Rich. Royston, 1632.
Third edition in English, folio, with added engraved title by Martin Droeshout, closed tears to "The Beholder of this Title," and one text leaf, bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked, with new endleaves and pastedowns, 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
"Florio's Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne." (Quoted from New York Review Books blurb on Shakespeare's Montaigne: the Florio translation, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, NYRB Classics, 2014)
