{"id":10342,"date":"2013-09-06T06:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:24:09","slug":"featured-the-works-of-michel-de-montaigne-the-emerson-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-the-works-of-michel-de-montaigne-the-emerson-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: The Works of Michel De Montaigne, The Emerson Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Michel de Montaigne (1533 \u2013 1592) the father of Modern Skepticism, was the most influential writer of the French Renaissance. <\/span>He is primarily known for the creation of the essay as a literary genre, and his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes. His massive volume <em>Essais<\/em> contains to this day some of the most widely influential essays ever written.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> THE 1910 EMERSON EDITION of the The Works of Michel De Montaigne, COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES. An out of sequence copy in a LIMITED EDITION of 1050 printed copies. Translated by Charles Cotton. Revised with a preface by William Carew Hazlett. Introductory essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. All ten volumes are bound in 1\/4 blue leather and French paper. Each spine edge has five raised bands, decorated with 4 gilt fleurs-de-lis, and gilt title. Top edges gilt. Red &amp; black lettering on title pages. Each volume has both a b&amp;w tissue-guarded frontispiece and then a hand colored tissue-guarded color frontispiece of the same engraving following it. There are many additional b&amp;w tissue-guarded illustrative plates throughout each volume. Some minor chipping to heads of volume 1 and 10. Some minor rubbing to edges and corners. The front board of volume 1 disbound, but present. Hinges weak but holding well. Text blocks clean and square.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 25080<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/P10802091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10406\" title=\"The Works of Michel De Montaigne\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/P10802091-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/P10802091-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/P10802091.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Works of Michel De Montaigne <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Montaigne, Michel de; Emerson, Ralph Waldo<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Edwin C. Hill<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1910<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> 10 volumes bound in 1\/4 Leather<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition: <\/strong>Very Good<br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> Limited Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel de Montaigne (1533 \u2013 1592) the father of Modern Skepticism, was the most influential writer of the French Renaissance. He is primarily known for the creation of the essay as a literary genre, and his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes. His massive volume Essais contains to this day some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14954,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/14954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}