ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). [Aufaux-titre:] Julie, ou la Nouvel - Lot 71

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). [Aufaux-titre:] Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse. [On the title:] Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes. ÀAmsterdam, chez Marc Michel Rey, 1761. 6volumes in-12, brown marbled calf, ribbed spines with partitions and fleurons, garnet and brown title-pieces, brown fillet framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, red edges; rubbed edges, worn corners (one with small leather loss), snags on the headpieces, one split jaw, one loose quire in volumes IandII, marginal wetness on one plate (contemporary binding). I: (16, including 2nd, 3rd and 16th blank)-407-(one)pp. -II: (4including 2 blank versos)-319-(one)pp. -III: (4including 2 blank versos)-255-(one)pp. -IV: (4of which 2white versos)-331-(onewhite)pp. -V: (4of which 2white versos)-311-(one)pp. -VI: (4of which 2white versos)-312pp. First edition (McEachern, IA). Beautifully illustrated after drawings by Gravelot: 12 copper-engraved plates out of text by various artists after Hubert-François Bourguignon d'Anville dit Gravelot. Vignette in the text repeated in the titles of vol.I andVI. Enriched copy of two booklets related to LaNouvelle Héloïse and published separately by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Préface de LaNouvelle Héloïse: ou Entretien sur les romans, entre l'éditeur et un homme de lettres. ÀParis, chez Duchesne, 1761. iv-91-(unblanche)pp. First edition (McEachern, P1). This platelet has been bound in before p.1 of the first volume. -[Recueil d'estampes pour LaNouvelle Héloïse, avec les sujets des mêmes estampes, tels qu'ils ont été donnés par l'éditeur. ÀParis, chez Duchesne, 1761]. In-12, 47-(unblanche)pp. without title leaf counting pp.1-2. First edition (MacEachern, R1). The leaves explaining the subject of each print are bound in next to the print being explained.