Jean-Baptiste Rousseau - Portefeuille de J. B. Rousseau - 1751

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Baptiste). J. B. Rousseau's Portfolio. Volume Two containing various pieces of verse and prose, addressed to him directly and others which he had collected. Amsterdam, by Marc Michel Rey, 1751. 2 volumes in-12; the first of XII-[4]-405 pages, 10x17 cm. A posthumous collection published by Lenglet du Fresnoy, gathering unpublished pieces by the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671-1741): odes, epistles, epigrams, songs, letters, as well as poems addressed to him. The first volume opens with a dedicatory epistle to Count de Goertz. Titles printed in red and black, adorned with engraved vignettes. Armorial engraved bookplate and an ancient manuscript bookplate. Bindings of the period in full marbled calf, spine with raised bands, with title and volume-number labels. Condition: spines and corners rubbed; some foxing.

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