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Quarter Calf Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Text in FRENCH. 5 Volumes of Correspondance of Rousseau complete. This was part of a larger set but it is compete in itself. Quarter black calf extra with four flattened bands and compartmented gilt and blindstamped designs to spine. Marbled boards, edges, and endsheets. Lovely period (original) binding in very good condition on all volumes except that on volume five has a quarter inch missing from top of spine. Silk bookmarks. Library stamp on title page yet not elsewhere. Very light sporadic foxing throughout. Overall VERY GOOD condition Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer. With his Confessions and other writings, he practically invented modern autobiography and encouraged a new focus on the building of subjectivity that would bear fruit in the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel and Freud. His novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse was one of the best-selling fictional works of the eighteenth century and was important to the development of romanticism. UncleAndy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.