Year of publication: 1917.<\/p>\n
Size: 19 cm.<\/p>\n
Volume: Vol. I: 324 pp.; Vol. II: 330 pp.; Vol. III: 284 pp.; Vol. IV: 366 pp.; Vol. V: 462 pp. A set of five volumes.<\/p>\n
Binding: Period half-leather.<\/p>\n
Five volumes of Michel de Montaigne\u2019s \u201cWritings,\u201d translated by Tadeusz Boy-\u017bele\u0144ski (1917). Montaigne (1533\u20131592), a lawyer and mayor of Bordeaux, created in \u201cEssays\u201d (Essais, 1580), a new genre: the essay. He wrote about himself candidly, with irony and skepticism toward dogma; his question \u201cQue sais-je?\u201d (\u201cWhat do I know?\u201d) became a symbol of humanistic humility. In 1676, *Essays* was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books. Boy\u2019s translation, with introductions that are works of literature in their own right, was published during World War I by Gebethner and Wolff. The Latin quotations in volumes I\u2013III were translated by Edmund Ci\u0119glewicz and Tadeusz Sinko.<\/p>\n
A set of five volumes. The title page bears a owner’s signature.<\/p>\n
Dirt and ink stains. Period half-leather binding.<\/p>\n
An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Title: The Writings of Michel de Montaigne. Vol. I\u2013V. Complete Set.
Author: DE MONTAIGNE Michel Eyquem [Michel de Montaigne] (1533\u20131592) [French writer and humanist philosopher, founder of the essay genre, one of the leading figures of the Renaissance]
Translation, introduction, and footnotes: Tadeusz \u017bele\u0144ski (Boy) (1874\u20131941). The Latin texts were translated by Edmund Ci\u0119glewicz (Vol. I) and Prof. Tadeusz Sinko (Vols. II\u2013III).
Publisher: Gebethner and Wolff, Warsaw. Boy\u2019s Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4537],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-45435","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-foreign-literature","first","instock","sold-individually","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/45435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=45435"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=45435"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=45435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}