Les confessions
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 380
Author
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Title
Les confessions
Statement of responsibility
Par Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs
Collection
Classiques Garnier
Printer
Imprimerie A. Lahure; Typographie Lahure, rue de Fleurus, 9, à Paris
Date
Ca. 1890
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, ca. 1890
Language
French
Print run
Not identified
Collation
583 pages
Illustrations
Black-and-white engraved frontispiece outside the text
Format
18 cm; octavo (8vo)
Dimensions
18 cm
Paper type
Satin-finished industrial mechanical pulp paper; heavy oxidation and humidity staining
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman typeface; homogeneous typographic printing
Binding type
Period full cloth binding with leather spine
Colours
Red and burgundy
Decoration
Gilt tooling on spine; polychrome marbled endpapers
Spine
Burgundy leather spine with gilt decoration; rubbing and small losses at headcaps
Content description
Autobiographical work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau divided into chronological parts and books; one of the fundamental texts of modern autobiography and French philosophical literature
Note 1
Popular French edition from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century
Note 2
Preserves engraved black-and-white frontispiece outside the text
Note 3
Printed by Imprimerie A. Lahure for Garnier Frères
Note 4
Reading copy with abundant foxing and humidity staining
Note 5
Preserves decorative period binding
Main subject
French autobiographical and philosophical literature
Subtopics
Autobiographical confession; Enlightenment thought; French philosophy; eighteenth-century literature; personal memoirs
Shelfmark
380
Condition
Acceptable; solid binding; interior heavily affected by foxing and humidity
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Preserves marbled endpapers and decorative period binding