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Collector's Edition published in advance reservation for subscribers to the Easton Press collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Illustrated with 80 drawings in sepia by William Sharp. 8vo, bound in the publisher's original gray leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. xvii, 635 pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

Edizione: first of the collector edition. rich and elegant drawings throughout by william sharp. the anonymous translation into english of 1783 and 1790, revised and completed by a.s.b. glover, with a new introduction by mr. glover. <br> "in this lengthy and astoundingly frank autobiography, rousseau revealed the most immoral and disreputable facets - along with the more wholesome ones - of a very complex individual, an erratic genius. in the words of one commentator, he was above all else 'a describer - a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature. in combining the two and expressing the effect of nature on the feelings and of the feelings on the aspect of nature, he was absolutely without a forerunner or model.'"- publisher