1902 · Boston & New York
by Montaigne, Michael de
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1902. Edition limited to 265 copies, folio, 3 volumes; portrait frontispiece, title page with elaborate woodcut border, decorated initials throughout, bibliography with reproductions of title pages in volume 3; original light-green paper-covered boards backed in cream buckram, paper spine labels; boards toned, a very good copy. Designed by Bruce Rogers during his early years with the Riverside Press, this set demonstrates the excellence in classical aesthetic for which he would become famous.
(Inventory #: 48698)