Representative Men.
Marian Blackwell’s Copy
[Blackwell, Marian, her copy]. Emerson, R.W. Representative Men. Seven Lectures. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.
8vo.; brown cloth; stamped in blind and gilt; light wear. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First edition of this collection of some of Emerson’s most interesting lectures, including the one on Swedenborg and Mysticism. Overall conforms to the first edition, first printing in bulking of sheets and binding. It does, however, contain two pages of publisher’s ads as recorded for the second printing; this is printed in black. There are no ads in blue on the endpapers, as called for by Meyerson for some versions of the second printing. BAL 5219, Cooke p. 102, Myerson A22.1a and A22.1.b.
From the library of Marian Blackwell, signed by her in ink in the year of publication on the front endpaper: Marian Blackwell / 1850. And again on the first blank, in pencil, M. Blackwell. Marian Blackwell (1818-1897), sister of Elizabeth (the first woman to graduate from medical school), assisted Elizabeth, their sister Anna, and their mother in opening a private school in Cincinnati to support the family. Marian later kept house for Elizabeth in New York, and was active in the suffrage movement serving with Elizabeth Stanton as Secretary of the Education Committee at the 1850 Worcester Convention—the same year she acquired this volume. She looked after their mother in Roseville, N.J., until the latter’s death in 1872, and lived in Europe during her own final years, with her sister Anna, in Hastings, England, near Elizabeth.
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