165 - (Louis JOU). MONTAIGNE (Michel de). ESSAYS.

(Louis JOU). MONTAIGNE (Michel de). ESSAYS. Paris, Les Livres de Louis Jou, 1934–1936. 3 vols., in-4°, paperback, with illustrated cloth-bound covers, in the publisher’s black-and-gold slipcase with a drawstring. Edition printed in red and black using Louis Jou’s beautiful typefaces, and illustrated with numerous woodcuts, including those on the covers and three portraits of Montaigne. The 107 chapters are adorned with a running head, an initial letter treated as a miniature painting, and a footer. Limited edition of 170 copies; this is one of the 125 numbered copies printed on Guarro paper in the original format. A very fine copy, as published; “This edition is not only the most significant work, but also the true masterpiece of the typographer”; these 1,200 pages required three years of labor, with the collaboration of seven journeymen and six proofreaders... A worn slipcase. (Feuille, no. 76) (Monod, 8311).