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Creator:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712–1778
Title(s):
The confessions of J.J. Rousseau : in an anonymous English version first published in two parts in 1783 & 1790 / now revised and completed by A.S.B. Glover ; with an introduction by Havelock Ellis ; ornamented with wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.
Additional Title(s):
Confessions. English
Published/Created:
London : The Nonesuch Press, MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Glasgow : Printed in Great Britain by R. Maclehose and Company Limited, the University Press, Glasgow, 1938
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 23 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PQ2036 .A5 1938
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Head-pieces; tail-piece.
"This edition consists of 800 copies designed by Francis Meynell and printed by R. Maclehose & Company on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Bound by the Leighton-Straker bookbinding company."--Colophon.
Dreyfus, J. History of the Nonesuch Press, 113
BAC: British Art Center copy is numbers 106 of a limited edition of 800 copies. Bound in contemporary brown morocco.
Subject Terms:
Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712–1778.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Wood engravings -- 1938.
Contributors:
Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939, writer of introduction.
Glover, A. S. B., editor.
Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co., binder.
Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975, book designer.
Nonesuch Press, publisher.
Robert MacLehose & Co., printer.
Stone, Reynolds, engraver.
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