The Complete Works (Essays Travel Journal Letters) of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne : Translated by Donald M. Frame ; with an introduction by Stuart Hampshire. 1 volume complete. LONDON : 2003. HARDBACK in JACKET.

London & New York: Everyman's Library - Random House - A.A. Knopf; Borzoi , 2003. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. FIRST EDITION THUS. LONDON : 2003. [ Everyman Library ]. One-volume-complete. Hardback. Original grey cloth; gilt lettered black panel to cover. In black and full colour pictorial dust-jacket. Green ribbon-marker. Everyman end-papers. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. FINE in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (li), 1336 pages. MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. CONTENTS: Introduction -- Translator's note -- Select bibliography -- Chronology -- Book I: By diverse means we arrive at the same end -- Of sadness -- Our feelings reach out beyond us -- How the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true are wanting -- Whether the governor of a besieged place should go out to parley -- Parley time is dangerous -- That intention is judge of our actions -- Of idleness -- Of liars -- Of prompt or slow speech -- Of prognostications -- Of constancy -- Ceremony of interviews between kings -- That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them -- One is punished for defending a place obstinately without reason -- Of the punishment of cowardice -- Trait of certain ambassadors -- Of fear -- That our happiness must not be judged until after our death -- That to philosophize is to learn to die -- Of the power of the imagination -- One man's profit is another man's harm -- Of custom, and not easily changing an accepted law -- Various outcomes of the same plan -- Of pedantry -- Of the education of children -- It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity -- Of friendship -- Twenty-nine sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie -- Of moderation -- Of cannibals -- We would meddle soberly with judging divine ordinances -- To flee from sensual pleasures at the price of life -- Fortune is often met in the path of reason -- Of a lack in our administrations -- Of the custom of wearing clothes -- Of Cato the Younger -- How we cry and laugh for the same thing -- Of solitude -- Consideration upon Cicero -- Of not communicating one's glory -- Of the inequality that is between us -- Of sumptuary laws -- Of sleep -- Of the battle of Dreux -- Of names -- Of the uncertainty of our judgment -- Of war horses -- Of ancient customs - and much more!. **Heavy tome; extra postage needed outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].