ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Complete collection of works. Londo - Lot 18

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Complete collection of works. London, s.n. [i.e. Bruxelles, Jean-Louis de Boubers], 1774-1783. 12volumes in-4, ornate tortoiseshell calf, spine ribbed, cloisonné and fleuronné with red and black title-pieces, ornate coupes, marbled edges (period binding). I: (4including 2white versos)-xxxii-viii-382pp. -II: (4including 2white versos)-399pp. -III: (4including 2white versos)-373[including 4firsts in Roman numerals]-(3white)pp. -IV: (4including 2white versos)-354pp. -V: (4including 2white versos)-485-(3dincluding first white)pp.., some with printed notated music -VI: (4of which the 2aux versos white)-[of which the first 24 in Roman numerals]-484pp. -VII: (4of which the 2aux versos white)-516pp. -VIII: (4of which the 2aux versos white)-420pp. -IX: (2dof which the second white)-ix-(one)-538pp. some pages with printed notated music. -X: (4of which the 2 versos are blank)-8-558pp. -XI: (4of which the last is blank)-615[miscalculated 515]-(one blank)pp. -XII: (4of which the last is blank)-704pp. -Damage: scuffing on some boards, some marginal wetness, several leaves yellowed. A fine "London" edition, partly original: two tragedies, two memoirs, a few poems and some twenty letters appear here for the first time. Superb copper-engraved illustration. Off-text: a portrait by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Maurice Quentin de La Tour; 38 plates after Jean-Michel Moreau dit Moreau le jeune and Jean-Jacques-François LeBarbier, in third printing (numbered and with vertical piers); 14 folding music plates. In the text: 12 title vignettes. Provenance: J.M.M. VanBelle (bookplate dated Amsterdam 1883); then William Vincens Bouguereau (bookplate).