"Lectures on the Times"; "Natural History of Massachusetts" [in] The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion. Three complete issues: July 1842; October 1842; January 1843

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau (and Others)

Edité par E.P. Peabody, 13 West Street, Boston, 1842

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Three consecutive single issues in the original printed wrappers. Octavos. Vol. 3, No. 1: July, 1842 (pp. [1] 2-136); No. 2: October, 1842 (pp. [137] 138-280); No. 3: January, 1843 (pp. [281] 282-416). Issue nos. 2 and 3 have one or two small tears to the wrapper (no. 3 has about an inch torn away from the top corner of the back wrap), else all three issues are about near fine with light scattered foxing. Edited by Margaret Fuller (1840-42) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1842-44), *The Dial* was one of the most important American literary magazines of the 19th Century, and also one of the scarcest, with a subscription list that "did not at any time reach three hundred names." It published many of their best-known literary works and critical writings, including reviews and translations. It also introduced the writings of Henry David Thoreau and other leading writers and social reformers connected with the Transcendentalist group and Brook Farm utopian community. This set of three consecutive issues contains several poems and essays by Emerson, as well as all three of his *Lectures on the Times:* ("Introductory Lecture"; "The Conservative"; "The Transcendentalist"). Also included are eight poems by Thoreau, and his *Natural History of Massachusetts*, as well as literary works and reviews by Margaret Fuller. An important and scarce run of three issues in original wrappers, the issues are usually encountered bound together. A detailed list of selected contributions is available.

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• Titre: "Lectures on the Times"; "Natural History of Massachusetts" [in] The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion. Three complete issues: July 1842; October 1842; January 1843
• Éditeur: E.P. Peabody, 13 West Street, Boston
• Date de parution: 1842
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Near Fine
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