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[ROUSSEAU IN RUSSIAN] Ispoved’ [i.e. Confessions]

Rousseau, J.

Item #2024

St. Petersburg: tip. br. Panteleyevykh, 1901. LXIV, 512 pp., 1 portrait: ill. 24.5x15.3 cm. Contemporary quarter leather with gilt-lettering on the spine. Binding rubbed. Otherwise in a very good condition.

Scarce. First edition of the fourth complete Russian translation. Censored. Like most of the Confessions printed in Russia between 1865 and 1917, it also omits the censored homosexual scenes set in Torino and Lyon. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Original French edition published in 1782.
An extremely rare, one of the earliest Russian translations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s notorious autobiography Confessions. The book was translated from the original French under the editorial guidance of S. S. Trubachev in 1901. Unlike previous releases, this edition includes Rousseau’s brief biographical sketch by the Russian political figure and Active Privy Councillor Vasily Timiryazev (1849-1919). The publication also features Rousseau’s portrait and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Maurice Leloir from the 1889 French edition.
Excerpts from Rousseau’s Confessions were first translated into Russian by D. Boltin in 1797. Between 1865 and 1917, the Russian audience saw the release of nine Russian editions of the book, including seven complete versions, one in excerpts, and an unfinished edition. The first unexpurgated edition free from censorship was edited by N. A. Berdyaev and published in Kyiv in 1905, four years after our edition came out.

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Price: $850.00