[Les essais ...
Contributors: Gournay, Marie Le Jars de, 1565-1645
Edition: Ed. novv., corr. & augm. d'vn tiers outre les premieres impressions, plus la vie de l'autheur extraicte de ses propres escrits.
Published: 1625
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 1039
Notes: Title page wanting; t.p. information supplied from A. Tchemerzine.  Bibl. d'éditions originales et rares d'auteurs français.

Prelim. matter ("Preface svr les Essais de Michel, seignevr de Montaigne, par sa fille d'alliance [Mlle de Gournay]") wanting; information supplied from G.B. Ives.  Bibliography of the Essays (in v. 3 of the Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1902-04 ed. of Essays)  The edition bears the imprint of 9 different firms.  Cf. Tchemerzine.

Numerous errors in paging; no. 120-129, 808-809 (2d group) and no. 86-87 (3d group) duplicated; no. 575-578 and 841-850 (2d group) omitted.

----  ------  Copy 2.  Prelim. matter ("Les imprimevrs av lectevr" and "Vie de Michel, seignevr de Montaigne ... compilée & recueillie par les imprimeurs") wanting.  The translations of the quotations (101 p. at end wanting.  The errors in paging of p. 206, 369, 372, 771, 774, 775, 778 have been corrected.  First leaf of Mlle de Gournay's preface slightly mutilated.  With the autograph of John Home Cameron.