Essays of Montaigne
By: selected, edited & newly done into English by Francis Carmody
Contributors: Carmody, Francis J. (Francis James), 1907-1982, translator; Dean, Mallette, 1907-1975, illustrator; Allen, Lewis M., book designer, printer, illuminator; Allen, Dorothy, 1908-2006, book designer, printer, illuminator; Wheeler, William, binder; Allen Press; L-D Allen Press; Jack Harris Samuels Library
Publisher: L-D Allen Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Hillsborough, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Notes: "This book is one of an edition limited to two hundred copies; the type face is Garamont, and the paper all-rag Oxbow. It has been designed, printed and hand-illuminated by Lewis & Dorothy Allen at the L-D Allen Press at Hillsborough, California. The decorations were drawn by Mallette Dean, and the binding was executed by William Wheeler."--Colophon.

Rare Book Book Arts copy: Prospectus and advertisement laid in.

Rare Book AIGA copy: In original dust jacket.

Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels
Table of contents: title: On the education of children; title: On cannibals; title: On solitude; title: The effect of good & bad things; title: On books; title: On cruelty; title: Against lying; title: On three kinds of intercourse; title: On coaches; title: On the art of conversation.