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Oeuvres Completes by ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
Paris: Pourrat, 1833. New Edition (this edition first published in 1825). Twenty-five octavo volumes, complete. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait and an engraving of authors published by Pourrat. Contemporary and uniform binding of quarter black morocco over marbled boards, smooth spines with long gilt device at centers of spines and lettering above and beneath, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Bookplate of Frederic Pichenot. A very handsome set in very attractive bindings; tight and clean. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), ÒFrench philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generationÉit was Diderot who encouraged Rousseau to write the essay Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750; Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts), which won him fameÉHe followed this work with Discours sur lÕorigine de lÕinegalitŽ (1755; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality)ÉHis four-volume novel ƒmile; ou De lÕŽducation (1762; Emile; or, On Education) and the essay Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract), in which he discussed the idea of the volontŽ gŽnŽral, or general will, were both condemned by the Parlement of Paris. Rousseau was forced to seek asylum in Switzerland, which provoked Voltaire to write Le Sentiment des citoyens (1764; ÒThe Feeling of the CitizensÓ). After renouncing his citizenship, Rousseau moved to England for a year but quarrelled with his benefactor David Hume and returned to France incognito in 1767. To justify himself he began writing his autobiography, Confessions, with was published posthumously in 1782-89Ó (Merriam-WebsterÕs Encyclopedia of Literature).
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