Details

Former owner

• Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908 [Browse]
• Seillière, Achille, Baron, 1813-1873 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Annotations [Browse]
• Armorial bindings [Browse]

Notes

• Head- and tailpieces.
• 2d Paris ed., 1st printing; 4th line of p. 70 begins "que vne" and not "qu'vne" as found in later printings. It does not contain the "carton" mentioned in Payen's bibliography, but has the notice "An lecteur", which is usually lacking in this ed. This notice is slightly different from previous ed.
• Princeton copy 2 (2022-0023Q) 192 autograph annotations by Antoine de Laval and his nephew, Charles de LaMure, in brown ink, in the margins of the copy. Many passages underlined.

Binding note

• Princeton copy 2 (2022-0023Q) Binding signed by Pagnant. Green morocco, ribbed spine, gilt edges on witnesses.
• Princeton copy 1 bound in 19th cent. armorial binding in full red morocco, doublures, signed 'Duru 1859' on free endpaper. Gilt arms on sides are those of Baron Seillière.

Provenance

• Princeton copy 1 contains book-plate of Victorien Sardou, Bibliothèque de Marly.
• Princeton copy 2 (2022-0023Q) Provenance: Antoine de Laval (1550-1632; three autograph bookplates: two on the title page and one in the margin of the chapter “Of Glory”, p. 409; numerous autograph annotations) -- Charles de La Mure, his nephew (two autograph ex-libris: one on the title page, with the date “1634”; one second, page 79, Book Three; autograph annotations) -- Ernest Courbet (Paris, 1917, n° 42) --Librairie Damascène Morgand (catalogue of March 1919, n° 260) -- Alfred Lindeboom (Paris, March 231925, n° 65) -- Christian Lazare (Paris, May 19, 1967, n° 49) -- Georges Heilbrun (cat 29, 1968, n° 78,14,500 FF: “copy of a friend of Montaigne”) -- Bernard Malle (stamp).

Indexed in

• Catalogue de livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés, composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le baron Ach. S****** [i.e. Seillière]. lot 140.
• Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. Victorien Sardou,... de l'Académie française : [vente, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 25-27 mai 1909]. première partie. lot 432.
• Jean-Baptiste de Proyart, Cahier No. 55, 'Michel de Montaigne.Les Essais, 1595, Exemplaire annoté par Antoine de Laval' (September 2022).

OCLC

31175404

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