EMERSON. Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1865. Photographic frontispiece of a bust of Emerson by Gould. 8vo, original maroon cloth, cover gilt lettered, light wear to spine ends. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to: "Miss Sophie E. Thoreau from her friend, A. Bronson Alcott. Concord, July 28, 1865" -- [Laid in]: EMERSON, ELLEN T. Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("Ellen T. Emerson"), by Elliott & Fry. London, n.d. 105 x 63 mm., (4 1/8 x 2½ in.) including mount. A three-quarter-length portrait of Emerson, signed on lower margin. (2)

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EMERSON. Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1865. Photographic frontispiece of a bust of Emerson by Gould. 8vo, original maroon cloth, cover gilt lettered, light wear to spine ends. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to: "Miss Sophie E. Thoreau from her friend, A. Bronson Alcott. Concord, July 28, 1865" -- [Laid in]: EMERSON, ELLEN T. Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("Ellen T. Emerson"), by Elliott & Fry. London, n.d. 105 x 63 mm., (4 1/8 x 2½ in.) including mount. A three-quarter-length portrait of Emerson, signed on lower margin. (2)
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