Essays by Montaigne

Based on advice in the Request Thread #82 (https://www.librarything.com/topic/317681) I've made a tiny step in separating out a particular edition of Montaigne's Essays, containing 27 essays of the 107.

These are all editions with the Penguin ISBN 0140440836. I separated them out in two batches so they are currently in two works:

https://www.librarything.com/work/25125553/
https://www.librarything.com/work/25125556/

For some reason I can't find them at the moment on Montaigne's page so I haven't combined them, but they should certainly be combined.

Next I'll take a look at some other editions with the same translator (J.M. Cohen) and see if they are the same work.

https://www.librarything.com/work/25125635

is a revised edition (1993) of the same Penguin selection of the essays, even though some of the LT editions in this work manage to have "Complete Essays" in their titles. I separated them out of the actual Complete Essays based on the ISBN, 014017897X.

I will combine this work with the other separated ones when I can.

Using a workbench is often far more convenient than combining from author page. Just add works to combine to the workbench (bottom right corner of the work page, under 'advanced') and combine from there. The 'advanced' section might also help sorting author attribution by hitting 'recalculate author'.

>3 SandraArdnas: Thanks. I'll explore workbenches.

In the meantime, I need help to combine these two:

https://www.librarything.com/work/25125635 (542 copies)
https://www.librarything.com/work/25125556 (329 copies)

They correspond to the ISBNs 0140440836 and 014017897X. They are they Penguin edition of Cohen's translation of 27 essays. The second ISBN is the revised edition of 1993.

They both appear on Montaigne's combine page but when I try to combine them I get the message

"Sorry, too much love! Because of a number of massive over-combinations (eg., every book by C. S. Lewis combined into one) combinations that change more than 200 books have been disabled, except for LibraryThing staff, until we work out some rules".

I have a related question.

When I separated out these editions into separate works I couldn't find them on Montaigne's author page at first. After several hours they appeared there.

Is this due to a delay in the regeneration of LT's internal indexes, or because some step needed to be taken by a staffer?

For blocks containing over 200 books each, someone with authority to do so must combine/separate. There's a dedicated thread for such cases.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/313648

I've already posted this one on your behalf.

I'm not sure whether there is a delay in indexing, because it doesn't always happen. Either way, clicking 'recalculate title/author' usually sorts it out immediately.

>5 SandraArdnas: Thanks!

>6 quokka70: You're welcome. Thank you for taking the time to sort out the work

I'm adding another note here, so we have a paper trail.

According to my searches, all editions of the Essays translated by Cohen are the same work, https://www.librarything.com/work/25125635. It was published by Penguin in 1958 (as volume L83 in the Penguin Classics series), revised in 1993. The two ISBNs I listed above appear to be the only ones.

The same text was released in a hard cover by Franklin Press in 1982, apparently without an ISBN.

There is another Penguin Classics edition from 1994, "The Essays: A Selection", but this is different. It is translated by M. A. Screech.

I've added this information to the disambiguation note here on LT.

I am going to separate out the other LT editions listed with Cohen as a translator or Pengiun Classics before 1994 and combine them in with the work I split out earlier.