Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile ou de l’éducation. 4 vols.

Titles in red and black. With 5 engr. plates after Eisen. Title, VIII, 1 leaf, 464 pp., 1 blank leaf; half title, title, 407 pp.; half title, title, 384 pp. (without blank pp. 359/60); half title, title, 455 pp. 8vo. Contemp. calf, vol. I with edges gilt. – La Haye (i.e. Paris), Jean Néaulme (i.e. Duchesne), 1762.

Second Duchesne edition in the year of the first edition. Here the 8vo version ending with p. 464 and being delivered prior to the 12mo version. Vol. I with the explication of the plates and the eight erratas, of which six were already corrected in this version. The work, one of the most important statement about education ever and a pioneering treatise on psychology, was forbidden in Geneva and Paris suddenly after it’s publication. – Dufour 190; McEachern 4A; Cohen/de R. 903. – Outer hinges of vols. I and IV cracking (still firm), boards rubbed. Inside some dampstain. Vol. I in a slightly divergent binding. Good in all. – Best.-Nr. 22320