Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

$3,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. First edition, first printing. vi , 303 pp. Late 19th century fine binding by Alfred Matthews, skillfully rebacked. Full brown morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to spine, wide turn-ins with dentelle, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon marker. Near Fine with bookplate to front pastedown, partially obscuring evidence of previous bookplate and inscribed in ballpoint pen by a

• Binding: Leather

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