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Montaigne, Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne. Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in Three Books; with Marginal Notes and Quotations, and an Account of the Author's Life. Together with a Short Character of the Author and Translator, by a Person of Honour. Made English by Charles Cotton, Esq. London: Printed for Daniel Brown, J. Nicholson, R. Wellington, B. Tooke, B. Barker, G. Strahan, R. Smith, and G. Harris, 1711. Fourth Edition. Three volumes, octavo (20 × 12.5 cm). Collation: Vol. I, [xvi], 495 pp., [xxvii]; Vol. II, [vi], 676 pp., [xxvi]; Vol. III, [iv], 464 pp., [xxxii]. Engraved portrait frontispiece to Volume I. This fourth edition is described on the title page as being issued “with the addition of a compleat table to each volume, and a full defence of the author.” Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Armorial bookplate of George Arnold, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber, affixed to each volume and partially obscuring an earlier unidentified bookplate. A handsome and well-preserved set in very good condition. D261N36