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Representative men : seven lectures / by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
LIBRA - Rare PS1621 .A1 1894
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, author.
- Series:
- [Fairmount series] ; [3]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato.
- Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.
- Swedenborg, Emanuel.
- Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
- Montaigne, Michel de.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Napoleon.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Publisher's advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- 294 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 15 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, 1894.
- Contents:
- Uses of great men
- Plato, or, The philosopher Plato : new readings
- Swedenborg, or, The mystic
- Montaigne, or, The skeptic
- Shakespeare, or, The poet
- Napoleon, or, The man of the world
- Goethe, or, The writer.
- Notes:
- Binding is format 1 for Altemus's Fairmount series. See www.henryaltemus.com/series/series83.htm (viewed 29 September 2026).
- Series statement and volume number from www.henryaltemus.com/series/series83.htm (viewed 29 September 2026).
- "The Altemus library." [publisher's advertisement]: Pages [1]-[3] at end.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare PS1621 .A1 1894 purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Newspaper clipping headlined "What's in a man's age?" from an unidentified, probably early 1920s, publication laid in.
- OCLC:
- 518745
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