EMERSON, RALPH WALDO — Emerson's Essays: [First and Second Series]; (Everyman's Library #12)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. ISBN: 0460000128. A 1967 reprint of the 1906 issuance. A collection of essays by the American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). The essays are presented in two series, the first includes his "History," "Self-Reliance," "Love," "Friendship," and others. The second includes his "The Poet," "Manners," "Nature," "Politics," and others, including a lecture on New England reformers. With an introduction by Sherman Paul. Everyman's Library catalogue no. 12. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine. In yellow dust jacket with 'Everyman's Library' surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- A generally well-preserved copy: unmarked and tightly-bound, though with conspicuously splayed front board & discreet Cambridge bookseller label to front paste-down. Unclipped, unpriced jacket in great shape but with small tear, else lacking damages and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xvi, [1], 8-362, [8, ads] pages. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .