Representative Men.
£100.00
Publisher
George Routledge and Co., Soho Square.
Place
London
Date
1850
Synopsis
Seven lectures by r. w. emerson
Item Description
FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo.. 6.5 x 4.25 inches. [4] + 182 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities worn, including corners and head and tail of spine, and hinges starting to crack; otherwise a very good clean copy. Representative Men first published in 1850, consists of seven essays, based on lectures. The first assesses the Uses of Great Men, then follow six biographical studies: Plato; or, the Philosopher and 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) US essayist, lecturer and poet was at the centre of the transcendentalist group of writers living at Concord, Massachusetts.
[Stock No. 29590]
