A translation of: Essais.

Title page continues onto the verso of the sheet.

Imprint from title page verso.

In three books, each with separate dated title page; register is continuous.

With two final errata leaves.

Signatures: Áı ℗œ℗ø B-Q́œ Ŕþ S-2Ṕœ 2Q-2Ŕþ 2S-3Íœ 3Ḱþ [3L]℗ø.

Preliminaries include quire ℗œ℗ø following A8. ℗œ1 bears a poem to John Florio; ℗œ2 bears errors and omissions; these 2 leaves are frequently lacking.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 18041

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, entry 378

English short title catalogue, entry S111839

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department copy) bound by Alfred Matthews in red morocco triple-panelled in gilt. The spine is tooled in gilt and all text block edges are gilt. The volume is housed in a purple morocco box. The BPL gift bookplate of Augustus Hemenway is present on the front pastedown. Laid onto the front flyleaf are six lines of verse in what appears to be a 17th century hand, but which are now ascribed to the hand of John Payne Collier, the Shakespearian critic and forger of documents who formerly owned the volume. Present on the title page is what appears to be the autograph of James I, King of England, as well as the autograph of Robert Gordon (1580-1656). This volume was item 1588 in the Gordon sale of March 25, 1816. Gathering ℗œ is wanting. Consult More Books/BPL Bulletin, Jan-March 1926, p.15 for a description of the provenance of this volume vis-a-vis Collier's forgeries.