1859 1st ed Essays of Michel de Montaigne France Renaissance Philosophy Humanism



“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

― Michel de Montaigne, Essays



First published in 1580, the Essays of Michel de Montaigne were a collection of essays and writings on a variety of topics and content. Montaigne was rather decisive in his rhetoric and used various Ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian texts as examples and references, such as Lucretius and Plutarch quotations. Montaigne himself stated that the goal of his essays was to describe man with ‘utter frankness and honesty.’ According to the scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller,

"the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence".



Montaigne sought to break man down into his basic features, which, at the time, was extreme volatility. He wrote on marriage being an absolute necessity for raising children, but he also quoted, in the ‘Essays,’ that “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out."



This 1859 first edition four-volume set was collected by William Hazlit and edited by O.W. Wight.



Item number: #13906

Price: $399



MONTAIGNE, Michel de



Works of Michael de Montaigne. Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters, with notes from all the commentators, biographical and bibliographical notices,



York, Derby and Jackson, 1859.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

Vol. I – ix, 492

Vol. II – vi, 533, [1]

Vol. III – 510

Vol. IV – 573, [1]

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Cloth

Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm)



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