Published posthumously, the Confessions, supplemented by Reveries of the Solitary Walker, is the precursor of the modern autobiography. , 471,, 279,, 300.įirst edition of the first six books of the Confessions and the Reveries, Rousseau’s autobiographical masterpiece, handsomely bound. Octavo, period-style full brown calf gilt, raised bands, red leather spine labels, uncut pp. Rousseau, Suivies des Reveries du Promeneur Solitarie. “I HAVE RESOLVED ON AN ENTERPRISE WHICH HAS NO PRECEDENT, AND WHICH, ONCE COMPLETE, WILL HAVE NO IMITATION”: RARE FIRST EDITION OF ROUSSEAU’S CONFESSIONS, UNCUT COPY
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