Growing up without parents, Rousseau learns to be resourceful. The legitimacy of the information contained in the book is unverifiable although largely accepted to be true.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, self-titled Confessions, was published four years after his death. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.
Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Nonesuch was unusual among private presses in that it used a small hand press to design books and then had them printed by commercial printers. Founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett, The Nonesuch Press was established in the basement of Garnett's bookshop in Soho. Providing an account of the experiences that shaped Rousseau's personality and ideas, the work was also noted for its detailed account of Rousseau's more humiliating and shameful moments. Prior to the Confessions, the two great autobiographies were Augustine's own Confessions and Saint Teresa's Life of Herself. In fine condition.įirst published in 1782, four years after Rousseau's death, his Confessions is notable as one of the first major autobiographies. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, frontis portrait and thirteen engraved plates reproduced from the Jouaust edition of 1881, numerous woodcut headpieces. $750.00 Item Number: 102454įinely bound set of Rousseau’s autobiographical masterpiece. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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