The essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
Subtitle: in three volumes
By: translated into English.
Contributors: Coste, Pierre, 1668-1747.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.; Savil, George.
Edition: The eighth edition, with very considerable amendments and improvements, from the most accurate and elegant French edition of Peter Coste.
Series: Blake -- no. 821
Publisher: Printed for J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst, T. Davies, T. Payne, J. F. and C. Rivington, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Caslon, J. Robson, W. Ginger, T. Evans, and E. Johnston
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Work titles: Essais.
Notes: Translated by Charles Cotton and George Savil.

Vol. 1: [34], 414, [24] p.; v. 2: [4], 608, [32] p.; v. 3: [4], 468, [28] p.

A revision of Cotton's translation.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., p. 326.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy lacks v. 1, p. 179-192.

Victoria University Library volumes have armorial bookplates of Ernest Everard Gates.

The signature of "Wm. Blake" at the top of each volume's title-page in the Victoria University Library copy is the signature of William Blake, the lawyer of Beckford Row, not William Blake, the poet and engraver. Cf. Bentley.

Victoria University Library: A reproduction from Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 28 August 1986 in which this is #206 is inserted.