1. Rousseau, J.J.

The Confessions of J.J.Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva. Part The Second. To which is added, a New Collection of Letters from the Author. Translated from the French. In Three Volumes.

First Edition in the English Language. [Volume I-III of the Second Part complete]. London, G.G.J. and J.Robinson, and J.Bew, Paternoster-Row, 1790. 10.5 cm x 17.7 cm. Volume I: VII, 442 pages / Volume II: 397, [5] pages / Volume III: 418 [5] pages. Hardcover / Volumes II and III in original full leather with new spine-label. Volume I recently rebound by a mster-binder in modern leather, matching the style of the 18th century bindings. All three Volumes with new spine-labels. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques] Guéhenno, Jean.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Volume I – 1712 – 1758 / Volume II – 1758 – 1778. Translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman.

Two Volumes (complete set). London / New York, Routledge and Kegan Paul / Columbia University Press, 1966. Octavo. XVI, 460, XI, 316 pages Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

3. [Babbitt, Irving] Morley, John.

“Rousseau” [Significant Provenance: Irving Babbitt’s annotated working copy of “Rousseau” by John Morley].

Two Volumes. London, Macmillan and co., 1896. Small Octavo. 337, 348 pages. Hardcover / Bothy Volumes in their original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. In protective Mylar. Later edition of the monograph on Rousseau by the biographer of Gladstone. Both volumes very good in red cloth-covered boards with slight wear at corners and head and foot of spine. These volumes origin from the library of Irving Babbitt, co-founder of New Humanism and great enemy of the thought of Rousseau. Babbitt’s penciled notes / annotations can be found throughout the two volumes, and his ornate ownership signature spreads across the front blank of volume two.