ROUSSEAU Views of different dwellings by... - Lot 305 - Eric Caudron

ROUSSEAU Views of different dwellings by J. J. Rousseau, with his portrait and the simulated facsimile of an air of his composition, to follow his Works Paris, Imprimerie lithographique de C. de L ... Lasteyrie], 1819, in-4, 27 pp., with 13 off-text plates, half-basane with corners, smooth spine decorated with fillets, dotted, Greek and gilt fleurons (contemporary binding). A very rare album that brings together the lithographs and text complementary to the collective edition of Rousseau's Works published by Petitain in 1819-1820 by Lefèvre. Our copy has been truffled on the back of Plate IV with a laminated lithograph: Cascade de Grésy, near Chambéry. Linked with : I. Addition to the story of J. J. Rousseau. Letter to Sophie (paginated 545-560, in-8 reimposed). - II. A set of 25 lithographs from the 1830s illustrating different places in and around Paris.