Michel de Montaigne, Essays (1603)

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Date
1603
Author
Translator
John Florio Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
To the curteous reader
Book title
The Essayes
Printer
Valentine Simmes
Publisher
Edward Blount
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
branded words
Extent
a5v-a6r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: But some errors are mine, and mine by more then translation. Are they in Grammer, or Ortographie? as easie for you to right, as me to be wrong; or in construction, as mis-attributing him, her, or it, to things alive, or dead, or newter; you may soone know my meaning, and eftsoones vse your mending: or are they in some vncouth termes; as entraine, conscientious, endeare, tarnish, comporte, efface, facilitate, ammusing, debauching, regret, effort, emotion, and such like; if you like them not, take other most commonly set by them to expound them, since there they were set to make such likely French words familiar with our English, whcih well may beare them. If any be capitall in sense mistaking, be I admonished, and they shall be recanted ... (a5v-a6r)
Schafer
1603 F
STC
18041
Other editions
1613: STC 18042;
1632: STC 18043
Facsimiles
Montaigne, Michel de. The Essays 1603. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record