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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inégalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1755. In-8 of lxx-[2]-262 pp. Marbled calf, ornate spine, red edges (contemporary binding). Small worm hole on one spine, minor wear at head cap. Tears not missing on pp. 153-154. A rare counterfeit of the original edition, published in the same year and precisely described by B. Gagnebin in one of the bibliographical notes of Rousseau's Œuvres complètes published in the Pléiade (unlike Tchemerzine and Dufour, who do not cite it exactly). This forgery is identical to the original, except for the following details: the frontispiece is unsigned and bears the caption "Il retourne chés ses Égaux" ("He returns to his Equals"), the vignette on the title is smaller, there are no cartons or errata, and the word "conformé" on p. 11 has not been corrected by hand. The frontispiece and two engraved vignettes that adorn this edition are copies of the original illustrations engraved by Sornique and Fokke; here, only the second vignette bears the initials of S. Fokke. A fine copy.

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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inégalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1755. In-8 of lxx-[2]-262 pp. Marbled calf, ornate spine, red edges (contemporary binding). Small worm hole on one spine, minor wear at head cap. Tears not missing on pp. 153-154. A rare counterfeit of the original edition, published in the same year and precisely described by B. Gagnebin in one of the bibliographical notes of Rousseau's Œuvres complètes published in the Pléiade (unlike Tchemerzine and Dufour, who do not cite it exactly). This forgery is identical to the original, except for the following details: the frontispiece is unsigned and bears the caption "Il retourne chés ses Égaux" ("He returns to his Equals"), the vignette on the title is smaller, there are no cartons or errata, and the word "conformé" on p. 11 has not been corrected by hand. The frontispiece and two engraved vignettes that adorn this edition are copies of the original illustrations engraved by Sornique and Fokke; here, only the second vignette bears the initials of S. Fokke. A fine copy.

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