Essays : First and second series / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; with wood-engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, author.

Contributor:

Müller, Hans Alexander, 1888-1962, engraver.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

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

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Estienne.

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

314 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, [1946]

Contents:

First Series: History

Self-reliance

Compensation

Spiritual laws

Love

Friendship

Prudence

Heroism

The over-soul

Circles

Intellect

Art; Second Series: The Poet

Experience

Character

Manners

Gifts

Nature

Politics

Nominalist and Realist.

Notes:

Issued in a slip case.

"The text of these essays has been set in the Estienne types, and is printed on a specially-made Peter Pauper Press paper."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 142 (page 40)

OCLC:

17252319