HE ESSAY ON 



NATURE. 



by 

 RALPH WALDO EMERSON 



Being an exact reprint of the first book 

 published by Emerson. First issued in 1836, 

 anonymously, at which time the author 

 was thirty-three years old. In this book 

 we find the whole work of the greatest of 

 American writers foreshadowed. It is a 

 prospectus, a revelation and a prophecy. 

 To every lover of Emerson this essay ranks 

 with Holy Writ, and in the first edition it 

 is almost priceless. 



Bound in limp leather, silk lined, per volume, $ 2.00 

 A few on Imperial Japan Vellum, in three- 

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