ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES — The Social Contract and Discourses; (Everyman's Library #660)

New York / London: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1966. Hardcover. A 1966 reprint of the 1913 issuance. An Everyman's Library English language edition presenting Jean Jacques Rousseau's theory that Society is founded upon a contract between the people and their government. Also presented are the author's Discourses on the Arts & Sciences, the Origin of Inequality and Political Economy. Translated, with an introduction, by G. D. H. Cole. Everyman's Library catalogue no. 660. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In light blue dust jacket variant with a portrait of the author to front panel. --- A tightly-bound, sound copy, but with frequent discreet pencilings through the text of "Social Contract." Unpriced, unclipped jacket with tears at spine ends and some darkening to spine, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xlii, 269, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .