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The DIADEM, for MDCCCXLVII. A Present for All Seasons with Ten Engravings from Pictures by Leutze, Sully, Gray. .
by (Emerson, Ralph Waldo)
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About This Item
Philadelphia and Boston: Carey & Hart and Hill & Broadhead, 1847. 4to. 275 x 225 mm., [10 ¾ x 9 inches]. 99 pp. Illustrated with an engraved mezzotint title-page and 9 mezzotint engravings by John Sartain. Brown publisher's cloth, gilt title and decoration on the upper board and in blind on the lower board. Binding cloth uniformly faded, head and tail of spine and corners a bit chipped and frayed. Preliminary leaves foxed, text block foxed mostly at margins and on tissue guards. Mezzotints generally clean. First edition of Emerson's poem, "The World Soul," which appeared a few months before it was printed in his 1847 edition of Poems. This issued of Diadem also includes a number of stories from European authors including Julius, or the Two Prisoners, translated from the French by R. Toepffer, and Poor Margaret translated from the German by Joana Schopenhauer. The illustrations are by the English born and trained engraver John Sartain who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1830. He brought with him the art of mezzotint engraving and was the first engraver to create a mezzotint in America. Sartain went on to become one of the most renown art engravers in the United States during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Jacob Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature 5209. Mantle Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, p. 317. Carol Wax, The Mezzotint, p. 108. .
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- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- 627
- Title
- The DIADEM, for MDCCCXLVII. A Present for All Seasons with Ten Engravings from Pictures by Leutze, Sully, Gray. .
- Author
- (Emerson, Ralph Waldo)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Publisher
- Carey & Hart and Hill & Broadhead
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and Boston
- Date Published
- 1847
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
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