Translated by Charles Cotton and edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. Quarter-bound in fine brown leatherette (1952) over cloth boards, gilt spine, Smyth-sewn. Part of the Great Books of the Western World series by Encyclopaedia Britannica, edited with guidance from the University of Chicago.
The Essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne come down to us from the great 16th century French writer and philosopher usually simply known as Montaigne. A profound thinker with humour, he invented the 'Essay' as a form of writing.
