Les Confessions - Nouvelle édition illustrée de quatre-vingt-seize compositions par Maurice Leloir

Features

Author:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Publisher:  Librairie Artistique H. Launette et C.ie

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1889

Product Condition:
Work in two volumes. Prestigious half leather binding with marbled corners and plates, titles and rich gilt friezes on the spine with 5 raised bands, in good condition: slight peeling on the headphones and on the edges of the plates. Gilded head cut, traces of dust on the cuts. Paper exlibris on front pastedown. Well preserved leaves, slightly browned, with scattered blooms and pale brown spots, located above all along the margins and more intense on the first and last leaves. Texte en Français

Pages:  (4), XXIV, 273; (4), 383

Format:  Fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  32
Width:  24

Description

Edition of Rousseau's work illustrated by 48 ft plates, headers, gliders, etched by Auguste Boulard, Louis Ruet and other engravers on illustrations painted in watercolor by Maurice Leloir. Foreword by Jules Claretie. Our specimen is further enhanced by an illustrious provenance: in fact, it comes from the library of the Chateau d'Ermenonville

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