Jean Jacques Rousseau & Marc-Monnier / Ed. Hédouin - Les Confessions - 1881

Magnificent four-volume set illustrated with 13 etchings by Ed. Hédouin, including a superb portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as frontispiece, with a preface by Marc-Monnier - This major edition of French autobiographical literature, in which the writer undertakes to tell his life with a wish for sincerity and a thorough examination of his own personality - Written mainly between 1765 and 1770, this personal narrative is distinguished by its ambition to present a man in the full complexity of his existence, exposing his virtues, his faults, his mistakes, his contradictions and the experiences that helped shape his thinking - From the very first pages, Rousseau declares his intention to show himself as he was, without concealing aspects of his conduct likely to provoke admiration, indignation or misunderstanding from his readers - Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Marc-Monnier / Ed. Hédouin - The Confessions - 1881 - Vol. I, II, III and IV - Librairie des Bibliophiles - XXXVIII - 207-231 - 346 - 273 Pages. Very good condition of the bindings, volumes in their half-leather with original corners, marbled boards, light signs of use, speckled edges, backs with fine strapwork decoration, gilt titles, volumes and author's name gilded - Good interior condition, foxing, title pages printed in red and black and adorned with a handsome vignette, pretty headbands, beautiful drop caps, volumes enriched with 13 etchings by Ed. Hédouin, including a superb portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as frontispiece, with a preface by Marc-Monnier, clean text, marbled endpapers in good condition, a beautiful set - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days -

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