Essais / The Essayes (Florio translation)

No book-club editions are documented for the early printings. The first-thus traps are numerous and matter more. For the English: the 1613 second edition (London, Melchisidec Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret) carries Florio's revised text and retitles Samuel Daniel's commendatory poem, and a third edition followed in 1632 — both are Florio, neither is the first. Charles Cotton's rival English translation, first published 1685-86, is a different translation altogether and not an edition of Florio, though it is frequently listed as though it were. For the French: the 1582 Bordeaux second edition, the 1588 Paris quarto and the 1595 Paris folio are all separate editions with their own standing, and a 1587 "missing edition" figures in the bibliography; none is an issue of the 1580. Later abridgements and commonplace-book compilations such as the 1701 Abstract are separate works.