NONESUCH PRESS: MONTAIGNE, Michel de.

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Essays. John Florio's Translation. Edited by J. I. M. Stewart. First Nonesuch edition, number 1,153 of 1,375 copies, of which 900 were released for sale in England. Regarded as the most important Elizabethan translation of any contemporary text, the translation's influence on English writers and philosophers of the time - including Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Hobbes, and Locke - is inestimable.Florio's translation was first published in 1603. This beautifully printed production, based on the third edition of 1632, is considered "the most authoritative" (Yates, p. 242).

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