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159566552The Definitive Edition and First Folio Edition MONTAIGNE Michel de. Les Essais.Edition nouvelle trouvee apres le deceds de l'Autheur reveue & augmentee par luy d'un tiers plus qu'aux precedentes Impressions. Paris: chez Michel Sonnius 1595. The Definitive edition and the first folio edition. Folio. 24 523 1 blank 231 1 errata pp. Modern maroon morocco. Morocco spine label raised bands old gilt edges. Contents skillfully washed and sized a few marginal tears not affecting text some scattered pencil marginalia. A very good copy. This edition edited by the French bluestocking Marie de Jars Demoiselle de Gournay 1566-1645 has some claim to be the definitive edition of Montaigne's Essais. Mlle de Gournay who as a very young girl had travelled to Paris to meet her intellectual hero was Montaigne's adopted daughter. After Montaigne's death his widow presented Mlle de Gournay with the philosopher's copiously annotated copy of the 1588 edition of his Essais the last issued during his lifetime and the first to include the third book. Having inserted Montaigne's additions marked the alterations and translated all the quotations Mlle de Gournay sent the proofs to Bordeaux where the poet Pierre de Brach collated them against another copy with Montaigne's annotations deposited in the convent of the Feuillants in Bordeaux. "The edition thus produced in 1595 has with justice passed as the standard even in preference to those which appeared in the author's lifetime" Ency. Brit. Copies were also issued with the imprint of Abel l'Angelier. STC French Books p. 317; Adams M-1622 both l'Angelier imprint; Graesse IV 579 "aujourd'hui la principale edition de Montaigne pour l'authenticite du texte". HBS 66552. $25000 Chez Michel Sonnius hardcover books
15884823Paris: chez Abel L'Angelier au premier pillier de la grand Salle du Pallais 1588. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 24.3 x 18.8 cm. 4 ff. 496 ff. first leaf is an etched title woodcut headpieces and initials. Bound in nineteenth-century red morocco spine gold stamped in six compartments gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers ribbon bookmark all edges gilt. Minor rubbing and edge wear to spine and boards book labels inside upper cover and on front flyleaf title engraving trimmed at or just inside platemark as is usual faint inscription of verso of f. 4 some edge wear to f. 2 small loss at corner of f. 247 SSS iii a few minor paper flaws very occasional minor staining very minor browning to a few quires. The first complete edition of Michel de Montaigne's 1533-92 Essais one of the most influential and profound works of world literature. This is the last edition printed during the author's lifetime and the definitive text on which all later editions are based. The volume the so-called 'cinquièsme edition' is in fact the fourth edition and contains the first appearance of the third book printed from Montaigne's manuscript copy. Sayce offers an interesting hypothesis for the odd numbering of this edition: "The substitution of fifth for fourth edition may have been prompted by the desire to suggest that the book was selling better than it was a trick unknown today." Montaigne's association with Abel L'Angelier among the great printer-editors of the time was as much a coup for the author as it was for the publisher and the present volume's format "larger than the normal L'Angelier quarto gives Montaigne's book a certain prestige" Desan p. 42. The etched title page of putti masks and garlands in a quasi-architectural framework is here in its second state with the date added and the 'g' of 'grand' corrected; the copperplate seems to have been a bit large for the book as it is "often trimmed in almost all examples even those with the fullest margins" Desan p. 42. The present copy is typical of surviving 1588 editions almost all of which have been rebound in nineteenth-century red morocco Desan p. 42. The volume carries the bookplates of Horace de Landau 1824-1803 and the Swiss poet Albert Natural as well as a label indicating that it was exhibited in 1949 at the Lucerne exhibition "Dix Siècles de livres français" cat. no. 130 bis. OCLC locates U.S. copies at the Morgan Library Yale Princeton Harvard Chicago Williams Virginia NYPL and Clark Art. P. Desan Biblioteca Desaniana: Catalogue Montaigne pp. 41-2 no. 14; Tchemerzine-Scheler IV 843; Sayce & Maskell A Descriptive Bibliography of Montaigne's Essais 1580-1700 no. 4; PPM note 95. <br/> <br/> chez Abel L'Angelier au premier pillier de la grand Salle du Pallais hardcover books
15824822Bordeaux: Simon Millanges 1582. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 4 ff 806 pp 1 ff. Bound in luxurious 19th century red morocco by Chambolle-Duru. Very good. Rare second edition carefully corrected by Montaigne himself of his chef d'oeuvre and a masterpiece of world literature. Montaigne continuously corrected his Essais throughout his lifetime and modern commentators have often been able to trace the development of his thought through these changes in addition to the reflections they provide of Montaigne's life experiences. The first of these corrected editions is the present work published shortly after Montaigne's return from a voyage to Italy. The work is of particular American interest for one of the earliest and most astute accounts of Brazilian Indians published in the 16th century "Des Cannibales" pp. 174-191 and certainly the most widely read account of Brazilian Indians known to Renaissance readers. More meticulously and beautifully printed than the first edition the present work incorporates some 34 additions and 16 new citations relative to the 1580 text. Many of the new citations reference Italian sources - an indication of the profound effect Montaigne's travels in Italy 1580-1 had on the author. Other corrections - in text style orthography punctuation and the addition or suppression of words - have also been recorded by Marcel Françon. The edition of 1582 "permits first of all the correction of a somewhat corrupted text. but also represents a commercial endeavour by Millanges who had a great interest in associating himself with a new political power ie Montaigne who had been elected Mayor of Bordeaux in 1581." Desan In his thought-provoking discussion of civilized behaviour famously titled 'Des Cannibales' Montaigne draws on printed sources-Léry Thevet and Osorio-as well as a personal encounter with ethnic Brazilians. Montaigne had been in Rouen in 1562 when a group of Indians were presented to Charles IX. In "Des Cannibales" he reports with remarkable accuracy on Brazilian morals music housing and other ethnographic details. Following a detailed description of cannibalism the essayist draws a deft parallel with the torture methods employed by the Inquisition. Like the first edition the present work contains the first two books of the Essais. A third would appear only in 1588. OCLC shows Chicago Virginia the NYPL Yale Princeton and Harvard. Desan 12; Sayce 2; Tchemerzine-Scheler IV 871; M. Françon Les Essais de 1582 Harvard 1969. <br/> <br/> Simon Millanges hardcover books
