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VERY RARE -
SCARCE FIRST EDITION THUS - FIRST ISSUE
RARE LIMITED EDITION of an UNCOMMON
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"HOW FAR HIS INFLUENCE HAS EXTENDED IS
INCALCULABLE":
CHARLES COTTON'S ESTEEMED TRANSLATION OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS.
ESSAYS OF MICHEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE
In Three Books.
With Marginal Notes and Quotations of the
Cited Authors.
And an Account of the Author's Life.
Now Rendered into English
by
CHARLES
COTTON
LONDON: Printed for M. Gilliflower and W.
Hensman, 1700 [published date: 1700].
The Third Edition
with the Addition of a Compleat Table to each volume & a full
defense of the Author
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stated on the title page, 1st edition thus.
Thick 8vo. 7" x 5" inches (LxB). Pp. [24], 15, [1, blank], [32, index],
555, [5, ads]; [6], 728, [48, index; [4], 559, [1, blank], [44, index]
pages, complete with the often missing portrait frontispiece present
facing the title page of volume 2. Third Edition in Three volumes in
Fine original contemporary publisher's full fine leather bindings, gilt
ruled spine with 4 raised bands & 2 gilt lettered black morocco labels
in the second and fourth compartments.
Montaigne is known for
popularizing the essay as a literary genre. Montaigne's Essais contains
some of the most influential essays ever written. His work is noted for
its merging of casual anecdotes with intellectual insight.
Charles
Cotton's highly regarded English translation of Montaigne's essays,
considered "among the masterpieces of translation" (DNB). Michel Eyquem,
Seigneur de Montaigne commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of
the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne
had a direct influence on numerous Western writers; his massive volume
Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written.
"Montaigne devised the essay form in which to express his personal
convictions and private meditations, a form in which he can hardly be
said to have been anticipated. The most elaborate essay, the 'Apologie
de Raimond Sebonde,' is second to no other modern writing in attacking
fanaticism and pleading for tolerance. He finds a place in the present
canon, however, chiefly for his consummate representation of the
enlightened skepticism of the 16th century, to which Bacon, Descartes,
and Newton were to provide the answers in the next" (PMM 95).
"Though
regarded with suspicion by the Church and placed on the Index (1676),
his work won the admiration of his own and succeeding generations… it
was quoted by Shakespeare (in The Tempest) and… inspired the English
essay, as developed by Bacon, Cowley, Temple, and Dryden" (Reid, 422).
"How far his influence has extended is incalculable" (Harris, 105).
"Cotton's Montaigne ranks among the masterpieces
of translation" (DNB). "The final work Cotton saw through the press was
one of his most admired, his translation of Montaigne's Essays (three
volumes, 1685-6), which immediately supplanted that by John Florio
(1603) and was still being reprinted well into the 20th century. In
Montaigne, Cotton found a congenial mind and character, which he
rendered in relaxed and conversational prose" (ODNB). First translated
into English in 1603. From:
https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/126281.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
During his
lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author.
The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal
ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an
innovation, and his declaration that "I am myself the matter of my book"
was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however,
Montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any
other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that
began to emerge at that time. He is most famously known for his
skeptical remark, ''Que sçay-je?" ("What do I know?", in Middle French;
now rendered as "Que sais-je?" in modern French).
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