Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne

vi, 485 pp. Red boards with gilt titles and decor on spine, gilt decor on front board, top edge gilt, silk ribbon marker. CONTENTS: Of Custom, and That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received; Of the Education of Children; That Fortune Is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rules of Reason; Of Cannibals; Of War-Horses, or Destriers; Of Democritus and Heraclitus; Of Age; Of Drunkenness; Of Glory; Of Presumption; That We Taste Nothing Pure; Of Thumbs; Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers; Of Repentance; Upon Some Verses of Virgil; Of Coaches; That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die; Of Vanity; Of Physiognomy; Of the Force of Imagination; Of Experience.