[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Joseph Story to Edward Everett & Emerson's Seminal Essay in Sammelband of 32 Pamphlets

[Charles Agvent]

[EVERETT, Edward] EMERSON, Ralph Waldo; STORY, Joseph; et. al. A 
SAMMELBAND OF 32 PAMPHLETS, all PHI BETA KAPPA Addresses, including 
Emerson's AN ORATION, DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT 
CAMBRIDGE, AUGUST 31, 1837 and Story's A DISCOURSE PRONOUNCED BEFORE THE 
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, INSCRIBED by Story. First Edition. Two 5-1/4" x 
8-1/2" volumes identically bound in half calf and marbled boards with 
matching gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. All the pamphlets are 
complete except for the original wrappers which were not bound in. Both 
volumes with Edward Everett's bookplate on the front pastedown along 
with a presentation bookplate of Frederick W. Putnam to Hamilton 
College, both stamped "Withdrawn." In addition to Emerson and Story, 
other contributors include James Kent, Charles Sumner, Alexander 
Everett, Theopholis Parson, James Percifal, William J. Spooner, Denison 
Olmstead, Thomas S. Grimke, Benjamin Toslin, Theron Metcalf, Asher 
Robbins, Seth Hawley, Virgil Maxcy, and Asher Ware. Story's DISCOURSE 
(SABIN 92300) is INSCRIBED "The Honorable/Edward Everett/from the 
Author" on the title and has a partial correction in the author's hand 
on page 26. In addition to Story's INSCRIPTION to Everett, Maxcy and 
Ware have also INSCRIBED their addresses to Everett. Emerson's address 
is certainly the most important present in these volumes. Published in 
an edition of only 500 copies, all of which were sold within a month’s 
time, it was generally well received and was later described by Oliver 
Wendell Holmes as "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." When 
Emerson included this essay in his seminal collection in 1841, he 
renamed it "The American Scholar": "The clarion cry, to think, to 
create, to become a productive scholar, and above all to fulfil yourself 
as an individualist." BAL 5183; GROLIER AMERICAN 100: 43. Each volume 
also with the owner inscription of Frederick W. Putnam dated 22 November 
1910, Binghamton, NY. Putnam, a student of Louis Agassiz, was the first 
director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, president of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, president of the American 
Folklore Society, and president of the American Anthropological 
Association, among other honors. He is widely known as the "Father of 
American Archaeology." A remarkable collection with an exceptional 
provenance and association. Occasional foxing or staining; "withdrawn" 
stamps on front and rear pastedowns where there are minor remnants of a 
pocket. Paper library labels on the spines, rubbing to joints, slight 
edgewear. Overall Near Fine.

Edward Everett--a Unitarian minister, member of both the United States 
Congress and Senate, and also a governor of Massachusetts--is perhaps 
best known for his oratory powers. It is he who gave the "other" address 
at Gettysburg on 19 November 1863. The next day he wrote Lincoln saying, 
"I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the 
central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." 
(#020452) $7,500

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