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Franklin Library leather edition of Michel de Montaigne's "Essays," Translated by Donald M. Frame, Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca, a limited edition, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1980. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has matching moire silk end leaves, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Michel de Montaigne, who lived from 1533---1592, was educated at Bordeaux, France. "Essays" reveal the author as a man of insatiable intellectual curiosity, kindly and sagacious, condemning pedantry and lying, but tolerant of an easy morality. After the premature death of his friend La Boetie, he is much preoccupied with the subject of death. The general conclusion of the essays, embodied in his famous question, 'Que sais-Je', is the recognition of the fallibility of human reason and the relativity of human science. Some of the essays include: "Of Liars," "Of the Education of Children," "Of Moderation," "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "Of Solitude," "Of Sumptuary Laws," "Of Age," "Of Giving the Lie," "Of Virtue," "Of Anger," "On the Disadvantages of Greatness," "On Some Verses of Virgil," "Of Ancient Customs," "One Man's Profit Is Another Man's Harm," "Of Friendship," "Of Cannibals," "Of Books," "Against Do-nothingness," "That Our Happiness Must Not Be Judged Until After Our Death," "Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law," and my favorite: "That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them." 477 pages. I offer Combined shipping.