[Rarebooks] FS: THE DIAL, edited by Margaret Fuller & containing Emerson's landmark essay "Transcendentalism" and poems by Thoreau

[Charles Agvent]

 From our just posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items, 
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FULLER, Margaret and EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (editors). THOREAU, Henry 
David. THE DIAL: A MAGAZINE FOR LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION, 
VOLUME II: July 1841, October 1841, January 1842, & April 1842. Boston & 
London: E. P. Peabody/John Green, 1842. First Edition. Recently and 
handsomely bound, without wrappers, in half green morocco and marbled 
boards with morocco corners and gilt-lettered red and brown morocco 
spine labels. A prototype of the 20th-century little magazine, the DIAL 
was the most important American literary periodical of the 19th century 
and one of the scarcest with print runs never exceeding 300 copies. 
First edited by Margaret Fuller (1840-42) and then by Ralph Waldo 
Emerson (1842-44), it not only featured many of their most important 
works but also introduced the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Published 
only from July 1840 to April 1844, Volume II's four issues contain two 
poems by Thoreau, including his important "Friendship," later collected 
in his first book, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and much by Emerson 
including his defining piece "Transcendentalism." Page 421 has an early 
ink correction, possibly in the hand of the editor. Errata slip bound in 
before the last issue. Contents with light to moderate foxing; several 
ink and blindstamp library stamps. Binding Fine.         $2,000.00

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