5/11/2023 0 Comments The emile of jean jacques rousseauMcEachern suggests that parts of the 12mo edition may have gone through the press first but that the 8vo edition was distributed first. The first edition was printed in 8vo (1A) and 12mo (1B) formats from the same type in the same year. The printing history of the first edition of Émile is notoriously complex. During the French Revolution, Émile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Because of a controversial section of the book (“Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar”) Émile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. Émile provides Rousseau’s most widely read statement on the essential goodness of human nature, tracing the natural development of a child brought up in the country in accordance with nature and free from the corrupting influence of society. Contents generally clean.įirst edition (12mo) of Rousseau’s classic treatise on education, illustrated with 5 full-page engravings. 1 backed, small tears in blank margin of engraved frontispieces to first three volumes (not affecting image). Rubbing and edge wear to spines and boards, joints of vols. Bound uniformly in contemporary full mottled calf, marbled endpapers, red edges. Émile ou de l’Éducation….Ĥ volumes in 12mo, Vol.
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