The Radical: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Religion. Number 1: September, 1865 [and] Number 2: October, 1865.

Boston: For Sale By All Booksellers, 1865.

Price: $500.00


About the item

First edition of the first two issues. Pp. 1-32; 33-72. 2 vols. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Very good plus (minor wear, spine ends of issue II with minor losses). Mott III, pp. 65-71.

Item #334486

The first two issues of The Radical, a transcendentalist journal edited and published by Samuel H. Morse, intended as a “a medium for the freest expression of thought on all religious and social topics”, containing: “Address” [Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge] (15 pages) by Ralph Waldo Emerson; "Bond or Free" (10 pages) by Samuel Johnson; "The Radical and Religion" (a two-page "Letter of Criticism") by Henry James Sr.; "The Holiness of Helpfulness" by Rev. Robert Collyer; "Self-Dependence" (a poem) by Mathew Arnold; additional contributions by "Jairus," J.C.L. et al.