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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1755. 8° (195 x 123mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Sornique after Eisen, engraved headpiece to dedication. Red crushed morocco by Duru, 1857, gilt supralibros, gilt monogram with Viscount's coronet to corners of boards, gilt spine lettering, turn-ins and edges, red silk marker. Provenance: purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1935.
FIRST EDITION, [?]FIRST ISSUE with the author's middle name incorrectly spelt Jaques in the title and similarly at the end of the dedication, the accent added by hand by Rey to conformé on p.11, the frontispiece signed and titled 'chez' (and not chés), the correct large engraved vignette to the title-page and similarly the correct head-piece to the dedication. 'Rousseau's Discours portrayed man alienated from himself by the excessive size, inequalities of wealth, and overwhelming complexity of modern society -- a theme which both Hegel and Marx would amplify in the next century' (Norman). Kress 5470; Dufour 55; Norman 1850; Cohen-de Ricci 903.
FIRST EDITION, [?]FIRST ISSUE with the author's middle name incorrectly spelt Jaques in the title and similarly at the end of the dedication, the accent added by hand by Rey to conformé on p.11, the frontispiece signed and titled 'chez' (and not chés), the correct large engraved vignette to the title-page and similarly the correct head-piece to the dedication. 'Rousseau's Discours portrayed man alienated from himself by the excessive size, inequalities of wealth, and overwhelming complexity of modern society -- a theme which both Hegel and Marx would amplify in the next century' (Norman). Kress 5470; Dufour 55; Norman 1850; Cohen-de Ricci 903.
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