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Review #1: Kindle users avoid this version
Review #2: About the Heritage Press Edition in Slipcase
Review #3: Another Excellent Mid-Century Release from Heritage





Review #1

Kindle users avoid this version

Though it's only a few dollars, the Kindle version of this must-have book does not include a table of contents! Unless you want to read the 1000 page book from cover to cover, avoid this version.




Review #2

About the Heritage Press Edition in Slipcase

An edition with an excellent pedigree.

The Heritage Press edition of the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The First Series and The Second Series bears the spine title "Heritage Anniversary Edition."

One of the largest volumes ever produced by Heritage. Based on the original designs of master printer John Henry Nash, it derived its style from a Nicolas Jensen 1478 edition of Plutarch! Thus we have a 20th century book composed like a piece from the Renaissance with two color printing and a large 18 point Cloister Lightface, an elegant and "mellow" typeface derived from a Jensen design. Really, quite an impressive and distinctive interior.

In a red slipcase. Bound in tan buckram at the spine with red and gold details, three-quarters green and tan marbled French paper. Red page edges, 262 pp in a sewn binding.

Introduction by Edward F. O'Day.





Review #3

Another Excellent Mid-Century Release from Heritage

An edition with an excellent pedigree.

The Heritage Press edition of the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The First Series and The Second Series bears the spine title "Heritage Anniversary Edition."

One of the largest volumes ever produced by Heritage. Based on the original designs of master printer John Henry Nash, it derived its style from a Nicolas Jensen 1478 edition of Plutarch! Thus we have a 20th century book composed like a piece from the Renaissance with two color printing and a large 18 point Cloister Lightface, an elegant and "mellow" typeface derived from a Jensen design. Really, quite an impressive and distinctive interior.

In a red slipcase. Bound in tan buckram at the spine with red and gold details, three-quarters green and tan marbled French paper. Red page edges, 262 pp in a sewn binding.

Introduction by Edward F. O'Day.





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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Publication Date: 1987-04-02
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674267206

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