Essays of Montaigne. Selected, Edited & Newly Done Into English by Francis Carmody [Hillsborough, California]: The L-D Allen Press, 1948.
First edition thus. One of 200 copies designed, printed, and hand-illuminated by Lewis & Dorothy Allen at the L-D Allen Press.
Octavo. 181 pp. Title, headpieces, and chapter initials printed in green, purple, and red. Chapter initials, many of which are historiated, are hand-illuminated in gilt. Original full red brocade, spine lettered in gilt, top edges-gilt. Extremities very lightly rubbed, touch of sunning to spine, but still a near fine copy.
A lovely limited edition of Montaine's best-loved essays, newly translated.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was one of the key literary figures of the French Renaissance, and he popularized the essay as a literary form. His essays were among the most influential ever written; he directly influenced many prominent thinkers and writers, including Rene Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Freidrich Nietzsche, Isaac Asimov, and possibly William Shakespeare. Although he was a devout Catholic, he was against dogmatic thought, and is the father of the "non-conformist" tradition in French literature.
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