ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

Emile, or Of Education

According to the copy of Paris, with tacit permission for the bookseller, 1762, 4 vols. in-8, frontispiece by Schley and 5 off-text plates, tales of those of Eisen, marbled fawn basane, spines with nerves cloisonné and fleuronnés, red and cream title and tomaison pieces, simple cold fillet framing on the plates, red edges (period binding). 

Fifth counterfeiting of the original edition reported by Dufour, after those of Amsterdam (many different prints), Frankfurt, Leipzig, etc.
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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) Emile, or Of Education According to the copy of Paris, with tacit permission for the bookseller, 1762, 4 vols. in-8, frontispiece by Schley and 5 off-text plates, tales of those of Eisen, marbled fawn basane, spines with nerves cloisonné and fleuronnés, red and cream title and tomaison pieces, simple cold fillet framing on the plates, red edges (period binding). Fifth counterfeiting of the original edition reported by Dufour, after those of Amsterdam (many different prints), Frankfurt, Leipzig, etc.

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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) Emile, or Of Education According to the copy of Paris, with tacit permission for the bookseller, 1762, 4 vols. in-8, frontispiece by Schley and 5 off-text plates, tales of those of Eisen, marbled fawn basane, spines with nerves cloisonné and fleuronnés, red and cream title and tomaison pieces, simple cold fillet framing on the plates, red edges (period binding). Fifth counterfeiting of the original edition reported by Dufour, after those of Amsterdam (many different prints), Frankfurt, Leipzig, etc.
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