Essays: First and Second Series
Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, [1946]. Wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. Full leather, marbled endpapers. Quarto. 314 pages.
Emerson's Essays were first published in the 1840s and were pivotal in American literature for their profound exploration of individuality, self-reliance, and the transcendental connection between mankind and nature.
This beautiful edition is bound in full green leather by Maurin, with gilt ornamentation, marbled endpapers, and colored woodcut headpieces by Hans Alexander Mueller.
Ref. MYERSON A10.45.
Full green leather binding with gilt titles, ornamentation, and three raised bands on spine. Gilt stamped border rules to both boards, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, and top edge gilt. Prior owner gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Occasional faint foxing and toning to interior, a few spots to gilt along top edge of textblock, slight darkening along spine, else fine. A beautiful volume.
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