ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). OEuvres. - Lot 268

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). OEuvres. A fine copy of Rousseau's works, illustrated with plates and scores, in a binding by Bozérian. Paris, Didot l'aîné, year XI (1801). 20 volumes in-8, blond calf, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and historiated irons, black title and author's page, red tomaisons in a shield, boards decorated with a double gilt fillet, sides decorated with a gilt fillet, inner gilt roulette, marbled counterplates and endpapers, all edges gilt (Bozérian). Approx. 300 pages per volume, 21 engraved plates, 28 sheet music plates, 1 facsimile. Used rubbing and minor loss of gilding. Some foxing in places. Fine edition of Rousseau's works, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Saint-Aubin, 21 engraved plates by Dupréel, mostly after Moreau, 28 plates of scores, 14 of which are folded, and a fold-out facsimile of a handwritten letter by Rousseau in the eighteenth volume. The plates are taken from the collection of figures engraved under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Dupréel after Moreau, Le Barbier and Chasselat, published in twelve issues. As is often the case, our copy includes some twenty of the 64 engravings. A beautifully fresh set in fine Bozérian bindings. T1 Fx-t., frontispiece, t., VIII, 314 pp; T2 298 pp; T3 423 pp; T4 298 pp; T5 337 pp, 2 plates; T6 426 pp, 3 plates; T7 532 pp, 2 plates; T8 408 pp; T9 475 pp, 4 plates, 14 pp. of scores; T10 342 pp, 1 folding table, 1 folding score; T11 412 pp, frontispiece ; T12 299 pp. 13 folding scores ; T13 431 pp. 3 plates ; T14 355 pp. 2 plates ; T15 504 pp. ; T16 416 pp. 1 plate ; T17 352 pp. 3 plates ; T18 464 pp. 1 folding facsimile ; T19 519 pp. ; T20 428 pp. frontispiece.