Notes on Montaigne's Essays

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition [1933]
                                                First Modern Library Giant Edition [1946]

First binding style:     G2 [1933]
                                     G5 [1946]

First inverse DJ number:     225 [1933]
                                                309 but one very reliable report of 306 [1946]

Dates in print:     1933 - 1946 (Stewart intro)
                              1946 - 1947 (Trechmann preface)

Toledano number:     011.1 (Stewart intro)
                                     011.2 (Trechmann preface)

Confirmed DJ back styles:                 Gb, Gc, Gd 

Confirmed binding styles:                   G2 - G5 (none others exist)

Confirmed buckram sighting?            no

Intro author:     J.I.M. Stewart for the ML edition [1933]
                           Preface by E.J. Trechmann [1946]

Genre:     Essays/Personal Reflections/Reportage

Original language:      French

Translator:      John Florio (1933)
                          E.J. Trechmann (1946)

Thanks to the contributors:
Henry Toledano John Wolansky

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