English Traits.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856.
Price: $200.00
About the item
First edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate of I. Watson Webb. Head and tail of spine chipped, corners frayed, some rubbing, some light spotting and offsetting of text. BAL 5226.
Item #48819
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.
