Representative men
Subtitle: seven lectures
By: by R.W. Emerson.
Publisher: John Chapman
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832; Montaigne, Michel de, -- 1533-1592; Napoleon -- I, -- Emperor of the French, -- 1769-1821; Plato; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616; Swedenborg, Emanuel, -- 1688-1772
Notes: "The Catholic Series" on half-title and front and back covers.

Bound in brown cloth; stamped in gold and blind; yellowendpapers. In a protective case.

Probable first English edition. See BAL 5219, note.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Uses of great men - Plato; or, the philosopher - Plate; new readings - Swedenborg; or, the mystic - Montaigne; or, the skeptic - Shakespeare; or, the poet - Napoleon; or, the man of the world - Goethe; or, the writer.