Description: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson First edition, first printing of the American philosopher's classic first series of essays Boston: James Munroe, 1841. First edition, first printing. BAL's C binding (no priority) with 2 1/8" ornaments, rules and filigrees (rather than boxes) blindstamped on spine. [vi], 303 pp. Bound in publisher's dark brown ribbed cloth with elaborate blindstamped front and back boards, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers. Very Good, cloth worn at head and tail; two small stains to rear board; small tear to front free endpaper, and following page has an ink gift inscription and has a tear repaired with mending tissue; small scrape to half title; some foxing to conetnts, a few dog-eared pages. Decorative blindstamping to cloth still quite distinct. An attractive copy, uncommon thus. The first series of Emerson's essays, including the truly classic "Self-Reliance" and "The Over-Soul."
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Publisher: James Munroe
Year Printed: 1841
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Subject: Philosophy
Original/Facsimile: Original
