3 volumes, folio. Half-titles, wood-engraved portrait frontispieces, decorated title-pages, additional printed paper labels tipped in at the end of each volume. Original tan canvas-backed light green marbled boards, printed paper labels to spines, uncut (lacking dust jackets and boxes, some minor staining, slight wear to extremities). 

LIMITED EDITION, number 185 of 265 copies printed at the Riverside Press. "The project of printing Essays of Montaigne in three folio volumes had been considered from the first, and in view of the imposing scale of the work it was decided to have a special type cut for it which would have boldness and distinction in as large a size as sixteen-point" (Warde, pp. 13-14). Designed by Bruce Rogers, this edition was printed in Bruce's Montaigne type and also includes ornamental title-pages, frontispieces, head-pieces, and capitals designed by him while at the Riverside Press. Warde, Bruce Rogers, 33.