MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE The Essayes... now done into English [by John Florio]. [20], 179, [9], 193-450, [10], 475-664 pages.

Folio, contemporary calf with gilt arabesque centerpiece on covers, neatly rebacked; occasional early underscoring and marginalia (partly cropped), title and several other leaves remargined and/or rehinged. (London: Val. Sims for Edward Blount, 1603) FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH; with the leaf of commendatory verses by Samuel Daniel, correction slip on B1r, and integral blank 2Q4. Printing and the Mind of Man 95 (1580 original edition in French); Pforzheimer 378; STC 18041 (this edition).