Essays of Montaigne
by MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE & HAZLITT, WILLIAM CAREW Editor
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limite, 1923. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. All volumes bound in white cloth with gilt to front boards & to spines. Gilt to upper page edges; other edges uncut. Black & white portrait frontispieces to each volume. Folding facsimile of a letter to volume one. Each shows dustsoil to boards; browning to spines. Pages & outer page edges age darkened; endpages browned from pastedown glue. Signatures are starting in each volume, however, binding remains tight. Rear boards show some curling.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17058
- Title
- Essays of Montaigne
- Author
- MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE & HAZLITT, WILLIAM CAREW Editor
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limite
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Essays, Montaigne
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Facsimile
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...