English Traits.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Ownership signature on the title-page "Charles Ripley." Nice copy head of spine neatly repaired. BAL 5226; Myerson A24.1.a; Howe RWE 76.
Item #308128
This volume is a collection of lectures by Emerson describing his Engish visits including his meetings with English notables such as Carlyle, Coleridge and Wordsworth and describing the English nation, their manners, characters, education, aristocracy, etc.
