Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar, 1901
NY: Laurentian Press
One of 140 copies on Brown's handmade paper.
2449
Small quarto. 59pp, frenchfold. A double-page title adapts contemporary movements in modern art - spareness of line, white-figure against black ground, patterning - to the Arts & Crafts penchant for...
Small quarto. 59pp, frenchfold. A double-page title adapts contemporary movements in modern art - spareness of line, white-figure against black ground, patterning - to the Arts & Crafts penchant for an opening spread. Emerson delivered his address in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge. With hand-colored initials and occasional tail-pieces. Pale toning to spine, else fine in gray paper over boards with printed label. With original gray dust wrapper. Housed in slipcase.
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