The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
by ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
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About This Item
New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good+. 1955. Hardcover. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was an influential philosopher and novelist. This, his autobiography, was groundbreaking in its style; and the format was quickly followed by others after its publication in 1782. Presented in a Heritage Press edition in slipcase, in the anonymous translation into English of 1783 & 1790 revised & completed by A. S. B. Glover. With a new introduction by Mr. Glover; illustrations by William Sharp. Sandglass leaflet laid in (NY, no. I: 20). --- In full reddish-tan buckram-covered boards with image of Rousseau in dark red to front panel & spine titling, also in dark red; dark red topstain. Volume housed in slipcase which is wrapped in reddish-brown paper. --- An unmarked, well-preserved, tightly-bound copy. Fair-only slipcase with tears along a couple of edges but mostly intact and still able to protect the book.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xviii, 635 pages .
Synopsis
Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions, the book from which Jean-Jacques Rousseau took the title for his own book.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87803
- Title
- The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author
- ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- The Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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