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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778 ). Lettres de deuz amans, habitans d’une petite ville au pied des Alpes . Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1761. 6 volumes, 12º (163 x 93mm). With half-titles. Titles in red and black, engraved title-vignettes and a cul-de-lampe in volumes I-V. (Occasional light discolouration and spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines ruled in gilt and with a red lettering-piece (lettering-piece lacking from vols 3 and 4, a little rubbed).
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778 ). Lettres de deuz amans, habitans d’une petite ville au pied des Alpes . Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1761. 6 volumes, 12º (163 x 93mm). With half-titles. Titles in red and black, engraved title-vignettes and a cul-de-lampe in volumes I-V. (Occasional light discolouration and spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines ruled in gilt and with a red lettering-piece (lettering-piece lacking from vols 3 and 4, a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION, second or third issue, with the errata corrected but with the engraved culs-de-lampe at the end of volumes I-V. The work is better known as Julie ou la nouvelle Heloise . Rousseau was informed by the censor, Malesherbe, that this Dutch edition would not be allowed to enter France until it had been exhausted. Instead he was to publish a French edition for which he was paid 100 pistoles (the French name given to a Spanish gold coin). Rousseau later wrote that he would have foregone all of the money not to have seen his work horribly mutilated. Dufour 87; Tchemerzine X, 38.