Pictorial album of 41 etchings, incl. two portraits, by various engravers after Achille Devéria, printed on India paper (after letters) and pasted on thick wove paper, bound with tissue guards in half calf over marbled boards bordered gilt, spine decorated gilt, marbled endpapers; base paper and tissue guards are substantially foxed, images mostly intact. The title page and the subscription page are bound-in at the beginning and at the end, respectively.
Title page: (in ornamental frame): COLLECTION | DE VIGNETTES | POUR LES ŒUVRES | DE | J.-J. ROUSSEAU | GRAVÉES | PAR MM. FORSTER, LAUGIER, LEROUX, MULLER, ETC. | D’APRÈS LES DESSINS DE DEVÉRIA. | (pasted over) ÉPREUVES CHOISIES, SUR PAPIER DE CHINE. | {publisher’s device} | A PARIS, | CHEZ DALIBON, LIBRAIRE | DE S. A. R. MGR LE DUC DE NEMOURS, | Palais-Royal, galerie de Nemours. | M DCCC XXV. | Under the frame: Le portrait de Mme de Warens étant terminé, nous y avons joint trois vignettes pour former la quatrième livraison. — Le portrait de | J.-J. Rousseau avec deux vignettes en formera une aussi ; de cette manière le nombre des livraisons reste le même. ||
This collection was published by Dalibon the same year as the 25-volume Rousseau’s Œuvres completes.
Related persons:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French, 1712 – 1778).
Mme de Warens: Françoise-Louise de Warens [Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil] Swiss, 1699 – 1762).
S.A.R. Mgr Le Duc de Nemours: Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours [Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d’Orléans] (French, 1814 – 1896).
Contributors:
François-Denis Dalibon (French, 1794 – 1853) – publisher.
L’Imprimerie de Rignoux (Paris); Thomas-François Rignoux (1781 – 1863?) – printer.
Achille Devéria (French, 1800 – 1857) – artist.
Engravers :
François Forster (French, 1790 – 1872)
Jean Nicolas Laugier (French, 1785 – 1875)
Jean Marie Leroux (French, 1788 – 1871)
Henri Charles Müller (French, 1784 – 1845)
Herbert König (German, 1820 – 1876)
Louis Jean Désiré Delaistre (French, 1800 – 1871)
Jean Louis Toussaint Caron (French, 1790 – 1832)
Pierre Michel Adam (French, 1799 – 1853)
Ferdinand Sébastien Goulu (French, 1796 – 1848)
Jean-François Pourvoyeur (French, 1784 – 1851)
Jean Baptiste Touzé (French, fl. 1810 – 1830)
Narcisse Lecomte (French, 1794 – 1882)
Louis Hercule Sisco (French, 1778 – 1861)
Edme Jean Ruhierre (French, 1789 – fl. 1826)
Auguste Thomas Marie Blanchard (French, 1819 – 1898)
François Manceau (French, 1768 – after 1837)
Gabriel Louis Lacour-Lestudier (French, 1800 – 1849)
Fulley [Frilley?] Jean Jacques Frilley (French, 1797 – after 1850)
Philippe Joseph Augustin Vallot (French, 1796 – 1870)
Etienne Devilliers (French, 1784 – after 1844)
Jean Bosq (French, fl. c. 1801 – 1844)
Zachée Prévost (French, 1797 – 1861)
Jean Baptiste Guyard II (French, 1787 – 1831/32)
Antoine François Gelée (French, 1796-1860)
Constant Louis Antoine Lorichon (French, 1800-1856?)
Antoine Joseph Chollet (French, 1793 – after 1848)
Adrien Migneret (French, 1786 – 1840)
Alfred Johannot (French, 1800 – 1837)
Arnold Jéhotte (French, 1789 – 1836)
Hippolyte Prudhomme (French, 1793 – 1853)
Achille Lefèvre (French, 1798 – 1864)
Pierre Pelée (French, 1801 – 1871)
Antoine [Tony] Johannot (French, 1803 – 1852)
Pierre Joseph Tavernier (French, 1787 – after 1845)
Leclerc (?)
Levasseur (?)
