EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays [and] Essays: Second Series. Boston: Munroe, 1841 & 1844. 2 volumes, 8vo, original black and brown cloth respectively, the first worn at ends of spine and at rear outer joint, the second neatly repaired at ends of spine and worn at rear outer joint, the second with marginal browning, half calf slipcase. FIRST EDITION, Second Printing, and Binding C, of Essays: Second Series (with all but one of the second printing points in Myerson). BAL 5189, 5198; Myerson A10.1.a, A16.1.b; Grolier American 47: "In effect a single book...Timeless, and without a trace of 'dating'..." (2)