The Essays of Michel De Montaigne (Illustrated by Salvador Dali)

Translated by Charles Cotton Selected and Illustrated by Salvador Dali "Reader, thou hast here an honest book; it doth at the outset forewarn thee that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other than a domestic and private end: I have had no consideration at all either to thy service or to my glory. My powers are not capable of any such design . I have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends, so that, having lost me (which they must do shortly), they may therein recover some traits of my conditions an humors, and by that means preserve more whole, and more life-like, the knowledge they had of me. ......Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there's no reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject. Therefore, farewell. From Montaigne, the 12th June, 1580" Michel de Montaigne, 1947 Hardcover, Very Good 472 pages 800g 22 x 14.8 x 3.5 cm