Author: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES
Title: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Hardcover. ISBN: 0226500578. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was an influential philosopher and novelist. This, his autobiography, was groundbreaking in its style; and the format was quickly followed by others after its publication in 1782. Presented in a Heritage Press edition in slipcase, in the anonymous translation into English of 1783 & 1790 revised & completed by A. S. B. Glover. With a new introduction by Mr. Glover; illustrations by William Sharp. Sandglass leaflet laid in (NY, no. I: 20). --- In full reddish-tan buckram-covered boards with image of Rousseau in dark red to front panel & spine titling, also in dark red; dark red topstain. Volume housed in slipcase which is wrapped in reddish-brown paper. --- An unmarked, well-preserved, tightly-bound copy. Fair-only slipcase with tears along a couple of edges but mostly intact and still able to protect the book.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xviii, 635 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Illustrated Classics >>Heritage Press Editions
Title: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Hardcover. ISBN: 0226500578. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was an influential philosopher and novelist. This, his autobiography, was groundbreaking in its style; and the format was quickly followed by others after its publication in 1782. Presented in a Heritage Press edition in slipcase, in the anonymous translation into English of 1783 & 1790 revised & completed by A. S. B. Glover. With a new introduction by Mr. Glover; illustrations by William Sharp. Sandglass leaflet laid in (NY, no. I: 20). --- In full reddish-tan buckram-covered boards with image of Rousseau in dark red to front panel & spine titling, also in dark red; dark red topstain. Volume housed in slipcase which is wrapped in reddish-brown paper. --- An unmarked, well-preserved, tightly-bound copy. Fair-only slipcase with tears along a couple of edges but mostly intact and still able to protect the book.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xviii, 635 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Illustrated Classics >>Heritage Press Editions
Price: US$ 19.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87803
- Book number: 87803