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Essays of Michel De Montaigne
by Montaigne, Michael De
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1947. Translated by Charles Cotton Selected and Illustrated by Salvador Dali 8vo size clothbound hardcover has green extended spine with red title block and gilt titles under black cloth boards. Front cover has a gilt illustration. 472 deckled edged pages. Color frontispiece plus some full page color illustrations and black and white decorations throughout book. The full page illustrations are blank on the reverse and are suitable for framing if you desire. The essays in this volume, a selection by artist Salvador Dali, are a collection of some of the writings of Michael de Montaigne. His volume of Essays was first published in 1580. Publisher Doubleday & Company commissioned surrealist artist Salvador Dali to select and illustrate essays of Montaigne. It resulted in this very unique and incongruous book merging the talents of two very, very different luminaries. During the period of this commission, Dali was living and working in the United States. This volume begins with a Note to the Reader by Montaigne The essays in this collection are titled for each chapter, but there is no Table of Contents or Index. Essays include: Of Custom, and that We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received Of the Education of Children That Fortune Is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rules of Reason Of Cannibals Of War-Horses, or Destriers Of Democritus and Heraclitus Of Drunkenness Of Glory Of Presumption Of Thumbs Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers Of Vanity Of the Force of Imagination Of Experience Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) was a French philosopher. His volume of Essays was first published in 1580. Montaigne is credited with popularizing the essay as a literary genre. Translator Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687) is best known as the English language translator of this work, first printed in 1685. He was an author and poet in his own right. Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) was an iconic artist known almost as much for his moustache as his controversial and profoundly different surrealist paintings. Light wear to covers with two scratches on spine. Pages are toned with tanned margins. Pages 305/306 are stuck on the bottom corner. There is a very light spot and scratches on bottom of book and some light soil to top. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dali, Salvatore. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006605
- Title
- Essays of Michel De Montaigne
- Author
- Montaigne, Michael De
- Illustrator
- Dali, Salvatore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- essays; compilation; illustrated; Salvatore Dali;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Collectible;
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