Chez Marc Michel Rey, Amsterdam, 1762; three volumes, 12mo, 105 x 168mm; pp engraved frontispiece after Pigalle, series title, xii, 412, 58,, engraved frontispiece after Eisen, xxii, 185, xiv, [15] to 232,, half title and title, viii, 202, [ii], half title, 134, [135-136], xxxvi; polished mottled calf, corners rubbed and four (of six) spine labels missing, all joints cracked but generally firm other than the front joint of volume 1 which is close to breaking; internally tight and clean throughout; occasional very neat contemporary annotations in English to the text. The title page of Du Contract (sic) Social; ou Principes du Droit Politique. carries the drawing by the Swiss artist Benjamin Samuel Bolomey showing Justicia with her scales held high in her right hand, a pikestaff surmounted with a hat in her left, and a cat at her feet, engraved on copper by Charles-Ange Boily. The work, complete in itself, comprises the first part of volume 3 and runs to 202pp followed by a 2pp catalogue of books published by Rey. The second part of the volume, twice separately paginated, comprises Rousseau’s essay addressed to Christophe de Beaumont [then Archbishop of Paris] in response to the condemnation of Emile (published in May 1762) and identified as Seconde Edition Corrigée par L’Auteur … MDCCLXIV (134pp + 2pp book catalogue). This is followed in turn by Arrest de la Cour de Parlement … Extrait des Registres du Parlement du 9 Juin 1762, and also de Beaumont’s condemnation of Rousseau’s Emile, ou de l’Education, (xxxvi pp). de Beaumont’s Mandement against Emile is printed by the Queen’s printer, C F Simon and dated 1762.