Michel De Montaigne; William Carew Hazlitt [ed.] — Essays of Montaigne

London, Reeves and Turner, 1877. Cloth. A smart set of the essays of Michel De Montaigne, complete in three volumes. With a frontispiece to each volume. In the publisher's original cloth. The essays and letters of famous French renaissance philosopher, Michel de Montaigne. Translated to English by Charles Cotton. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. First edited by Hazlitt in 1842.The collection of essays were originally published between approximately 1570 and 1592 and include a vast array of topics, from religion and philosophy to drunkenness, cruelty and idleness. An important collection of works. In the publisher's original red cloth. Externally generally smart with bumping to the head and tail of the spine resulting in loss to the cloth. Marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Pages roughly cut. Ink stamp and library location for The Hillside School to front free endpaper of all volumes. Bookseller label to front paste down of all volumes. Ink library location to half title of all volumes. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .