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6 volumes octavo (219 x 140 mm). Exceptional contemporary leather binding with marbled boarded paper inside. Stylised fleuron gilted lettering and numbering on spine.
Austin Dobson, the period's leading authority on eighteenth-century literature, provided the preface and notes for this edition. Portraits and numerous plates, including 48 half-tone plates, two double-page, 3 folding facsimiles, maps and plans and facsimiles to the text are distributed throughout the six volumes. A very clean, bright and handsomely-bound set with text inside in fine condition.

First edition, illustrated with ALL 13 folding plates engraved by Mad. De Lusse. Advertisement and Errata leaves present, pages remarkably clean. This book is 4to (true first printing, larger size); popular copies were released later that same year in octavo.First encylopaedic approach toward creating a dictionary of music by the eminent French philosopher and music lover Rousseau.