Collection complète des oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau : citoyen de Genève.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Contributor:

Du Peyrou, Pierre-Alexandre, 1729-1794, Dedicator.

Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862., Donor.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1782

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

French literature--18th century.

French literature.

Philosophy--France--18th century.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- 1782.

Physical Description:

33 v. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Genève : [s.n.], 1782-1789.

Contents:

t. 1-2: Politique

t. 3-6: Julie ou de la nouvelle Héloïse

t. 7-10: Emile ou de l'education

t. 11-14: Mélanges

t. 15: Théâtre et poésies

t. 16-18: Musique.

t. 19-20: Confessions

t. 21-22: Dialogue

t. 23: Pieces sur divers sujects & un recueil de lettres

t. 24: Recueil de lettres sur la philosophie, la morale, & la politique

t. 25-33: Supplément.

Notes:

Half-titles.

Printer's device with initial S on t.p. of v. 1-3, 5, 8-9, 12-13, 16-17, 21-23, 25-30. Type ornament devices on t.p. v. 4, 6-7, 10-11, 14-15, 18-20, 24.

Head- and tail-pieces, rules, type ornaments.

"Table générale de toutes les pieces contenuets dans les vingt-quatre volumes in-8 de la Collection complete des œuvres de J.J. Rousseau.": p. [5]-12, v. 1.

Some volumes include indexes.

Vol. 12-18 have added special t.p. dated 1781; vol. 17-18 also have engraved special t.p.

Dedication signed and dated: Du Peyrou; 1779 (v. 1, p. 11).

Half-titles of supplements continue main vol. numbering.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Breck first presentation bookplate.

Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.

Cited in:

Dufour, T. Recherches bibliographiques, v. 2.

Girardin, p. 27-55.

Cf. BN, v. 157, col. 426.

Cf. NUC pre-1956, v. 506, p. 632-3.

OCLC:

11093883