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MONTAIGNE IN FACSIMILE 1
LET it be understood at once that the appearance
of this magnificent work is a bibliophilic ^ an ' I9 *3
rather than a literary event. The literary
event was the publication by M. Fortunat
Strowski, in 1909, of " L'Edition Municipale,"
an exact transcription of that annotated copy
of the 1588 quarto known to fame as " L'Ex-
de Bordeaux." What the same
emplaire
eminent scholar gives us now is a reproduction
in phototype of " L'Exemplaire." Any one,
therefore, who goes to these volumes in search
of literary discoveries is foredoomed to dis-
appointment. Indeed, the same might have
been said of " L'Edition
"
Municipale for the
;
" "
Motheau et Jouaust edition, reprinted by
MM. Flammarion
"
in their Bibliotheque
classique," was complete enough to satisfy all
but the most meticulous scholars, while for
general literary purposes the edition published
1 " Reproduction en Phototypie de 1'Exemplaire, avec
Notes manuscrites marginales, des Essais de Montaigne
appartenant a la Ville de Bordeaux." PubliSe, avec une
Introduction, par Fortunat Strowski. 3 vols. (Paris,
Hachette.)
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