TEXT-BLOCK EDGES - Top dulled, toned but clean. SPINE - Extremities mildly compressed - else clean and bright BINDING - Solid (as solid as can be expected) - no leaves are detached or loose.

********************* CONDITION: VERY GOOD PLUS A gently used copy with the following noted: BOARDS - A tiny puncture to the front joint near the head, else admirably preserved, seeming crisp and clean. Dent PLACE: London DATE : (1931) EDITION : Reprint - The first Everyman's Edition ******************** Small trade hardcover (16mo) decorated title page (and frontis-page opposite, as well) xx + 383 pages 4 1/4' x 6 3/4' light gray, thinly ribbed cloth with title & decorative embellishments in gilt on spine publisher's device stamped in blind on front board top edge dyed gray decorated end-papers. 860) TITLE : The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume 2 (Unabridged) AUTHOR : Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) TRANSLATION : Anonymous IMPRINT : J. Volume Two starts with his introduction to Grimm and a visit to Diderot. Knowles design is very much in the style of William Morris and other Pre-Raphaelite artists. On the page facing the title is an elaborately embellished quote form John Milton: ' A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life'. ******************** From its gilt-embellished spine through its beautiful end-papers designed by Reginald Knowles, to the floridly decorated frontis-page and title page. Dent, is one of the handsomest editions published for the general public with a view to budget. This is the Everyman's Library edition of Rousseau's brutally honest and inspired, and thus immortal work, 'The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau', published by J.

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