[Rarebooks] FS: Volume 2 of THE DIAL, edited by Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Charles Agvent]

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. Contemporary half 
calf leather with calf corners and marbled boards; bound without 
wrappers. 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. Rubbing to spine and 
boards. Tight, clean, and Near Fine. (#013163) $2,250.00

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