Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne (Quartre Volumes en Deux | Four Volumes in Two)

Paris: de l'imprimerie et de la Fonderie Stéréotypes de Pierre Didot l'ainé et de Firmin Didot, 1816.

Four vols in two, full parchment bindings with pale brown morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Foolscap 8vo (170 mm); xii, 412, [2], 390, [2]; [iv], 390, [2], [388] pp. Bindings slightly soiled, tips of corners a touch rubbed. No internal markings or old inscriptions. A solid and clean set on Montaigne's Essays originally publishsed during the years 1570 to 1592. English journalist and politician J. M. Robertson argued that Montaigne's essays had a profound influence on the plays of William Shakespeare, citing their similarities in language, themes and structures (Wikipedia)