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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Representative Men: Seven Lectures. 8vo, publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, spine head and foot chipped with slight loss, extremities rubbed with light exposure; endpapers lightly browned and foxed; preserved in cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco clamshell box. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1850
first edition, second printing with the ads at end. inscribed by the author to "Signor Gajani - with the respects of RW Emerson." Emerson attended lectures by the visiting Professor Guglielmo Gajani at the Concord Lyceum in 1856 and 1857. Gajani had served in Mazzini's first government, and the earlier of the two lectures was on the failure of Republicanism in Italy; his book The Roman Exile, published in New York in 1856, was on this subject too. Mazzini spent much time in London in the 1850s and was a regular visitor to Emerson's friend Thomas Carlyle. BAL 5219.
