![ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Les confessions ... suivies des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire [Seconde partie des Confessions]. Geneva: [part I: Moulton and De Tournes for Pancoucke, Paris; part II: ?Barde and Manget], 1782-1789.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CKS/2004_CKS_06905_0098_000(080745).jpg?w=1)
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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Les confessions ... suivies des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire [Seconde partie des Confessions]. Geneva: [part I: Moulton and De Tournes for Pancoucke, Paris; part II: ?Barde and Manget], 1782-1789.
4 volumes, 8° (219 x 130mm). Half-titles, reading 'Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau' in each volume. (Light waterstaining at beginning of vol. III, half-title to vol. IV a little torn and frayed). Uncut in original blue wrappers, vestiges of label for volumes III and IV (rubbed); modern board chemise and slipcases. Provenance: purchased from Georges Heilbrun through Willy Heimann, April 1969.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF PART I, WITH A SCARCE VARIANT OF PART II, UNIFORMLY BOUND IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Part I of the Confessions was included in the third and last instalment of the Geneva edition of Rousseau's works, but the publishers, the Societé typographique de Genève, also agreed to supply Pancoucke with a separate edition of 7000 copies of the Confessions and Rêveries. Printed by Moulton and De Tournes in special large-type 8°, this edition of part I 'à gros caractères' was the first to actually appear on sale. The editors of the works had decided against publishing part II in order to protect the reputations of still living people. Consternation was therefore caused when the Geneva publishers, Barde and Manget, announced publication of the second part in October 1789, along with a further selection of unpublished letters (in a third volume not present here). As Leigh states this first printing has half-titles which read 'Collection des Oeuvres de J.J. Roussseau,' titles reading 'Second Supplément à la Collection des Oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau,' and volume numbering adapted to make it appear that part II belonged to the Geneva edition of the works. The titles of the present copy read 'Second partie des Confessions de J.J. Rousseau,' and it is clearly another edition though treated as the first by both Tchemerzine (1933) and Sénelier (1950). Tchemerzine X, p. 63; PMM 207; Sénelier 1.168 & 1.178 ('394' for '594' in vol. III); Leigh Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J-J. Rousseau (Cambridge, 1990), p. 114ff. (4)
4 volumes, 8° (219 x 130mm). Half-titles, reading 'Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau' in each volume. (Light waterstaining at beginning of vol. III, half-title to vol. IV a little torn and frayed). Uncut in original blue wrappers, vestiges of label for volumes III and IV (rubbed); modern board chemise and slipcases. Provenance: purchased from Georges Heilbrun through Willy Heimann, April 1969.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF PART I, WITH A SCARCE VARIANT OF PART II, UNIFORMLY BOUND IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Part I of the Confessions was included in the third and last instalment of the Geneva edition of Rousseau's works, but the publishers, the Societé typographique de Genève, also agreed to supply Pancoucke with a separate edition of 7000 copies of the Confessions and Rêveries. Printed by Moulton and De Tournes in special large-type 8°, this edition of part I 'à gros caractères' was the first to actually appear on sale. The editors of the works had decided against publishing part II in order to protect the reputations of still living people. Consternation was therefore caused when the Geneva publishers, Barde and Manget, announced publication of the second part in October 1789, along with a further selection of unpublished letters (in a third volume not present here). As Leigh states this first printing has half-titles which read 'Collection des Oeuvres de J.J. Roussseau,' titles reading 'Second Supplément à la Collection des Oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau,' and volume numbering adapted to make it appear that part II belonged to the Geneva edition of the works. The titles of the present copy read 'Second partie des Confessions de J.J. Rousseau,' and it is clearly another edition though treated as the first by both Tchemerzine (1933) and Sénelier (1950). Tchemerzine X, p. 63; PMM 207; Sénelier 1.168 & 1.178 ('394' for '594' in vol. III); Leigh Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J-J. Rousseau (Cambridge, 1990), p. 114ff. (4)
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