Three essays / by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; with an appreciation by Van Wyck Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, author.

Contributor:

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963, writer of supplementary textual content.

Sissin, Vernon B., illustrator.

Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., publisher, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transcendentalism--Essays.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Wilhelm, C. H. (autograph) (Culture Class copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], vii, [1], 90, [2] pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Camden : Haddon Craftsmen, 1939.

Contents:

Emerson in Concord, an appreciation by Van Wyck Brooks.

Essay on self-reliance.

Essay on courage.

Essay on experience.

Notes:

"The appreciation by Van Wyck Brooks is an excerpt from his book 'The flowering of New England'."--Printer's note.

"This edition of Three Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson consists of eleven hundred copies ... The Frontispiece and the decorations are by Vernon B. Sisson."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has Christmas and New Year's card from Hadden Craftsmen autographed by C.H. Wilhelm laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] loose leaf with typewritten description of this book.

Culture Class Collection copy issued in a slipcase.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in slipcase. Has Christmas and New Year's card from Hadden Craftsmen laid in.

OCLC:

6579180