The autocrat of the breakfast table.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. 12mo. viii, 373 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half title, woodcut title, second title in red and black, and 8 woodcut plates. Original blue pebbled publisher’s cloth, the rare binding with 5 rings in gilt on the spine, decorated in blind; endpapers printed with publisher’s advertisements. Item #18183
First edition, first printing, with the very rare binding containing 5 rings on the spine, and with the publisher’s advertisement end-papers. Contains not only the famous essays on the intellectual and cultural life of New England at the time, but also the first printing of two of his most famous poems, The chambered nautilus and The one hoss shay.
Price: $850.00