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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Lettres de deuz amans, habitans d’une petite ville au pied des Alpes. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1761. 6 volumes, 12º (163 x 93mm). With half-titles. Titles in red and black, engraved title-vignettes and a cul-de-lampe in volumes I-V. (Occasional light discolouration and spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines ruled in gilt and with a red lettering-piece (lettering-piece lacking from vols 3 and 4, a little rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, second or third issue, with the errata corrected but with the engraved culs-de-lampe at the end of volumes I-V. The work is better known as Julie ou la nouvelle Heloise. Rousseau was informed by the censor, Malesherbe, that this Dutch edition would not be allowed to enter France until it had been exhausted. Instead he was to publish a French edition for which he was paid 100 pistoles (the French name given to a Spanish gold coin). Rousseau later wrote that he would have foregone all of the money not to have seen his work horribly mutilated. Dufour 87; Tchemerzine X, 38.
FIRST EDITION, second or third issue, with the errata corrected but with the engraved culs-de-lampe at the end of volumes I-V. The work is better known as Julie ou la nouvelle Heloise. Rousseau was informed by the censor, Malesherbe, that this Dutch edition would not be allowed to enter France until it had been exhausted. Instead he was to publish a French edition for which he was paid 100 pistoles (the French name given to a Spanish gold coin). Rousseau later wrote that he would have foregone all of the money not to have seen his work horribly mutilated. Dufour 87; Tchemerzine X, 38.
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