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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays * Essays: Second Series. 2 volumes. Half-title in first volume, 2 pages of advertisements bound in at the end of the second volume. 8vo, publisher's purple (first volume, BAL Binding "E") and brown (second volume, BAL Binding "A") cloth, covers decoratively blind-stamped, gilt-stamped titles on spines, including second volume with "2D. Series"; first volume with spine faded very slightly, second volume with minor rubbing to spine tips and lower corners bumped; endpapers discolored in volume one, with discreet booklabel and William Wallford armorial bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary gift inscription by him on front endpaper, and Stephen H. Wakeman bookplate on rear pastedown; preserved in two red cloth chemises in single 1/4 morocco slipcase. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1841-1844
first editions, first issues of both volumes, superb copies in extraordinarily clean bindings. One of the defining texts of American Transcendentalism. "In effect a single book ... Timeless, and without a trace of 'dating' ... " (Grolier American 47). BAL 5189; 5198.
