Emerson, Ralph Waldo — Representative Men. Seven Lectures

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Half-Leather. Perhaps the first UK edition, although as the preface by the publisher states, another publisher published an edition almost simultaneously with this, but without the author's final corrections. 143 pages. A collection of essays on men such as Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, etc. In half leather with faux marbled green paper on the boards. Title in gilt on the spine. In VERY GOOD condition. Moderate scuffing to the covers and extremities. Minor soiling and dusting. Minor fading. Text clean and solid with moderate darkening to the pages. Former price in ink on the first endpaper. Very Good/No Jacket.