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Between 450pp. and about 500pp./volume, 22x14cm, 12kg.
Very beautiful red sheepskin half-leather binding (publisher), spine with 4 raised bands adorned with gilt fillets, gilt motifs and blind-stamped motifs in the compartments, gilt title and volume number, pretty marbled paper on the covers.
Friction, normal wear (minor) on corners (blunt) and edges. Wear of use without consequence in head and back tail. Interior a little soiled by use (not serious), a few pages a little blackened as well as some engravings (not serious). Marbled endpapers, ex-libris in pasted vignette. With engravings and portraits inset under serpentes.
T1: Speech - T2: Theater - T3-4: Emile - T5: Social contract - T6-7: New Héloïse - T8: Letters - T9-10: Music dictionary - TII-12: Confessions - T13: Dialogues - T14- 15-16-17: Correspondences and Tables - T18-19: Unpublished works - T20: History of the life and works of J.-J. Rousseau.
Superb edition with very decorative bindings. 67393003
