Description
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)
Complete Works
Paris, Didot the Elder, Year IX (1801). 20 large volumes in-12 (20 x 12 cm), illustrated with a portrait of Rousseau by A. de Saint-Aubin as a frontispiece to the first volume and 24 out-of-text engravings, including 15 plates of engraved music including a leaflet, a table and a facsimile leaflet. The 24 figures are taken from the collection of 64 figures engraved under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Dupréel after Moreau, Le Barbier, Chasselat, Mayer… Fresh interior. VIII, 314, 475, 504, 297, 532, 423, 416, 426, IV, 352, 298, 464, LXIII & 355, 519, 408, 428, 342, 431, 298, 412, 337 pp.
Ssuperb vellum binding signed by F. Bozérian, smooth spine decorated with straight golden crisscrossed threads, black morocco title pieces and black morocco crest piece for the volume number, back covers and endpapers of blue marbled paper with red veins, scrolls with wavelets on the cuts, all gilded edges, 3 books with a partial crack at the jaws. Green and white silk slices. green silk bookmark. Enriched with a beautiful ex-libris in each of the volumes of (C. Mc Master Brookville-Donnybrook).
Paris, Didot the Elder, Year IX (1801). 20 large volumes in-12 (20 x 12 cm), illustrated with a portrait of Rousseau by A. de Saint-Aubin as a frontispiece to the first volume and 24 out-of-text engravings, including 15 plates of engraved music including a leaflet, a table and a facsimile leaflet. The 24 figures are taken from the collection of 64 figures engraved under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Dupréel after Moreau, Le Barbier, Chasselat, Mayer… Fresh interior. VIII, 314, 475, 504, 297, 532, 423, 416, 426, IV, 352, 298, 464, LXIII & 355, 519, 408, 428, 342, 431, 298, 412, 337 pp. Ssuperb vellum binding signed by F. Bozérian, smooth spine decorated with straight golden crisscrossed threads, black morocco title pieces and black morocco crest piece for the volume number, back covers a
