[Rarebooks] FS: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, & Henry David Thoreau: THE DIAL

[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. Recently and 
handsomely bound, without wrappers, in half green morocco leather 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, as well as contributions by 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. (#015674)        $2,000.00

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