Montaigne - Essais. 1754.
Essais avec les notes de M. Coste.
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MONTAIGNE, Michel de (1533-1592). Essais avec les notes de M. Coste. London: Nourse and Vaillant, 1754.
10 volumes, 12° (140 x 75mm). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary French crimson morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet, flat spines directly lettered in two compartments, the remaining four with a fleuron surrounded by small pointillé tools, gilt turn-ins, blue marbled endpapers, blue silk markers, gilt edges.
Bookplate of Admiral Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff.
FINE SET. This 'joli édition' was based on the 1745 London edition edited by Pierre Coste.
Brunet III, 1839
10 volumes, 12° (140 x 75mm). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary French crimson morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet, flat spines directly lettered in two compartments, the remaining four with a fleuron surrounded by small pointillé tools, gilt turn-ins, blue marbled endpapers, blue silk markers, gilt edges. Bookplate of Admiral Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff. FINE SET. This 'joli édition' was based on the 1745 London edition edited by Pierre Coste.