In this respect, Rousseau belongs to the family of Montaigne and Gide, whose lengthy confessions have rarely been judged in an unbiased manner. Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rouss by Jean Jacques Rousseau - When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional. Well known during his lifetime, these disputes have become legends which obscure the real ambiguities of his existence and achievement. 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. It details his experiences as a young man living in Geneva and his lifelong love affair with a woman 12. 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. Confessions is a memoir of Jean-Jacques Rousseaus life. 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.

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau