| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Publisher | Fischer Bücherei KG |
| Imprint | Fischer Bücherei |
| Series | Exempla Classica, Die Fischer Bibliothek der hundert Bücher |
| Series Editor | Walther Killy |
| Series Editorial Board | Arthur Henkel, Uvo Hölscher, Golo Mann, Walter Pabst, Helmut Viebrock |
| Afterword by | Walter Pabst |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Wolf D. Zimmermann |
| Cover Art by | Jean Antoine Houdon* |
| Licensed from | Propyläen Verlag |
| Copyright Holder | Propyläen-Verlag GmbH |
| Manufacturing by | Hanseatische Druckanstalt GmbH, Hamburg |
| Translated by | Alfred Semerau |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | German |
| Location | Germany |
| This Edition Published | 1961-01 |
| Pages / Font | 536 pages |
| Series Number | EC 21 |
| Notes | Printed in Germany |
