1906 ❧ Doves Press Emerson. [DOVES PRESS]. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays by Ralph Waldo Em...

1906 ❧ Doves Press Emerson. [DOVES PRESS]. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Preface by Thomas Carlyle. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1906. Small 4to (235 x 166 mm). Printed in red and black Doves Roman type. Bound in original full limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Emerson was one of only two American authors published by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press. Walker had met Emerson in London during the 1860s, viewing him as 'a pinnacle of a man,' and this text was printed 'in memory of that meeting and a late acknowledgement of a life-long debt'. It contains 12 of Emerson's definitive transcendentalist essays, including Self-Reliance, Love, Friendship, Intellect, and Art. Ransom Doves 9; Tidcombe 8. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing