ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques).

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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques).
Les confessions. Vignettes by MM. T. Johannot, H. Baron, K. Girardet, E. Laville, C. Nanteuil, etc. Paris, Barbier, 1846. Large in-8, garnet half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, untrimmed, illustrated cover and spine preserved (Canape). First edition. Frontispiece, 27 out-of-text compositions and woodcut vignettes in the text, notably after Tony Johannot, Baron, Girardet, Nanteuil. "Beautiful publication, very neat; this work is very rare in beautiful condition" (Carteret, III, p. 523). A fine copy, one of about 500 according to Carteret, containing the hors texte on chine paper pastedown before the letter, with its beautiful illustrated white covers preserved in perfect condition. Two illustrated prospectuses added (one leaf each), one for the Confessions, the other for La nouvelle Héloïse, by the same publisher (see next issue).
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