SIGNED BY SALVADOR DALI, LIMITED EDITION OF THE ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY DALI
(MONTAIGNE, Michel de) DALI, Salvador. Essays of Michel de Montaigne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947. Octavo, original blue cloth, top edge gilt; early acetate, original slipcase.
Signed limited edition of Montaigne's Essays, number 94 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Dalí, with 16 striking color plates and 20 black-and-white illustrations (five full-page) by Dali.
Dalí's vibrant illustrations were created specifically for this magnificent edition of 21 essays selected by Dalí. This juxtaposition of thought and image strikingly highlights the continuities in thought from Montaigne's 16th-century inquiries into the nature of reality with Dalí's 20th-century surrealist exploration of the irrational dream world underlying the real. Translation by Charles Cotton. Without rare glassine.
A fine copy in an expertly repaired slipcase.