Rousseau - Œuvres - 1772-1792

[Complete Sublime Edition in 33 Volumes of the Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau]

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU — COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION
Amsterdam (Marc-Michel Rey) & Geneva / Neuchâtel / Paris, 1772–1792.

Homogeneous set of 33 volumes, in-8°, bound in full marbled calf or mottled morocco of the period, smooth backs richly decorated with small stamps, title labels in red morocco and volume labels in green morocco (uniform bindings of the era).

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques.
Works of J. J. Rousseau of Geneva.
[Followed by: Posthumous Works, Correspondence and Supplements].

Vols I to XIII: Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1772 (in-8°, enriched with the author’s portrait by Ramsay engraved by Martinet and splendid illustrations set in text-free plates).

Vols XIV to XXI: Posthumous Works, Geneva [and Neuchâtel / Paris], 1781–1782.

Vols XXII to XXVI: Continuation of the Works and Correspondence, Neuchâtel and Paris, 1790.

Vols XXVII to XXXIII: Supplement to the Works of J. J. Rousseau, 1782.

The Amsterdam general edition (1772) and its extensions are adorned with a frontispiece portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau after Ramsay (engraved in a medallion on a pedestal bearing the motto Vitam impendere vero), as well as numerous copper-engraved illustrations (not collation-marked) accompanying the major philosophical and fictional texts (La Nouvelle Héloïse, Émile, The Social Contract, etc.).

Copper engravings not collated.

Splendid complete set in 33 volumes, preserved in its superb period full-move bindings in glazed calf. Minor wear to heads and corners, minute foxing inherent to 18th-century paper, overall interior very fresh and well kept. The endpapers preserve magnificent original multicolored marbled papers as well as old handwritten notes cataloging the entire collection.

Very fine copy.