MONTAIGNE'S ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP AND XXIX SONNETS BY ESTIENNE DE LA BOETIE. Translated into English by Louis How. Four hundred and fifty copies of this book were printed at The Riverside Press in September 1915 of which four hundred are for sale, This is number 163.

MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE. BOETIE, ESTIENNE DE LA.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company., Boston and New York, 1915

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8vo. 8.75 x 5 inches. [x] + 62 + [1] pp. + [i] pp. colophon and limited edition statement. Bound in vellum spine over brown boards with gilt title decoration. Deckled edges. Some wear to extremities and occasional, mainly to title page and preliminaries; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by ornamental title page border, headpiece vignette and by headpiece vignettes and initials in red. Limited edition of the Essay on Friendship by the French Renaissance philosopher and poet, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), who established the essay as a literary genre. Included with it are the XXIX Sonnets by Estienne De la Boetie (1530-1563), poet and essayist and friend of Montaigne. Both translated by US poet, Louis How (1873-1947). The Riverside Press was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Henry Oscar Houghton, joint founder of the Houghton Mifflin Company in 1880 (Biblio website). ART / LITERATURE ESSAYS ESSAYS POETRY FRENCH 16TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE.

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• Title: MONTAIGNE'S ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP AND XXIX SONNETS BY ESTIENNE DE LA BOETIE. Translated into English by Louis How. Four hundred and fifty copies of this book were printed at The Riverside Press in September 1915 of which four hundred are for sale, This is number 163.
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company., Boston and New York
• Publication Date: 1915