de MONTAIGNE, Michel [Charles Cotton, translator]

Essays of Michel de Montaigne [SIGNED by Salvador Dali]

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1947. Salvador Dali. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 472. Frontis. color illustration by Salvador Dali. Illustrated throughout with color illustrations by Salvador Dali. Bound in blue cloth; spine lettered in gilt, gilt illustration on front board. Front endpapers with a touch of age-toning; bookseller tag on rear pastedown (Savile Book Shop, WA DC). Of an edition limited to 1000 hand-numbed copies, signed by Dali, this is 179. Fine. Item #12816

A bright fresh copy. Doubleday was pursuing ambitious projects pairing classics of literature with prominent contemporary artists; the prospect of illustrating Montaigne was eagerly accepted by Dali, who had long admired the essayist.

Price: $800.00