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Order Nr. 88194 SUPPLEMENT TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON; A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Joel Myerson
(Emerson, Ralph Waldo).

SUPPLEMENT TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON; A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, DE and Pittsburgh, PA: Oak Knoll Press and University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 6" x 9" cloth. 325 pages. This supplement corrects and updates Joel Myerson's Ralph Waldo Emerson: a descriptive bibliography (1982). This work is limited to writings by Emerson. Writings about Emerson are not listed, except in cases where they include something by Emerson published for the first time or, in the Appendix, listing principal new works about Emerson. READ MORE

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INTRODUCTION

  This Supplement corrects and updates my Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Descriptive Bibliography (1982). It is limited to writings by Emerson. Writings about Emerson are not listed. except in cases where they include something by Emerson published for the first time. or in the Appendix listing principal new works about Emerson.

FORMAT

  Section A lists chronologically all books and pamphlets wholly by Emerson. including all printings of all editions in English and other languages through 1882. the year of Emerson's death. and all editions and reprintings in English through 2003. the bicentennial year of his birth.

  The numbering system for section A indicates the edition and printing for each entry. Thus. for Nature. A 3.1.a indicates that this is the third title published by Emerson (A 3). and that the entry describes the first edition . first printing (a). For multivolume works, the number of the volume is added to the numbering system; thus. for The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, A 59.X.1 indicates that this is the fifty-ninth Emerson title published (59), and that the entry describes the tenth volume (X), first edition . Issues are indicated by inferior numbers-thus A 21.1.a2 is the second issue of the first printing of Nature; Addresses, and Lectures.

  An additional numbering sequence has been employed in this Supplement for items not in the original bibliography, and which now appear between previously numbered items. by adding a capital letter as a suffix. Thus. the new entry A.lO.4A would appear between the old entries A 10.4 and A 10.5; the new entry A 10.5. iA would appear between the old entries A 1O.5.i and A lO.5.j. Similarly, for items in sections B through I, a capital letter suffix is added for new items. Thus, the new entry E 121 A would appear between the old entries E 121 and E 122. When material is added to entries in the original bibliography, and/or when corrections to them are made, the page number for the original entry is supplied.

  Each initial entry begins with a facsimile of the title page (with its dimensions given) and, where relevant, the copyright page. then the pagination. information on illustrations when present, a collation of the gatherings, and the dimensions of pages. A description of the contents is followed, when needed, by information about prior appearances in print. A number sign (#) following a title indicates its first appearance in print; a dagger (t) indicates its first collected appearance; a section sign indicates that it is attributed to Emerson. Information on typography and paper includes the dimensions of the printed text, type of paper, number of lines per page, and running heads. All paper is white unless otherwise indicated. Binding information includes cloth types, dimensions of stampings, and descriptions of flyleaves, endpapers, page trimming, and page-edge gilding or staining. Flyleaves and endpapers are wove paper unless otherwise indicated. All wrappers are wove paper unless otherwise indicated. Dust jackets, when present, are wove paper unless otherwise indicated and are fully described and usually reproduced.' -Information on publication is drawn from Emerson's account books, letters, and journals; publishers' records; copyright information (from both published and manuscript records of the Copyright Office); and contemporary book trade announcements. Locations are provided to identify the libraries holding copies of each title described and examined. Notes deal with information not discussed elsewhere in the entry.

  Section B lists chronologically all collected editions of Emerson's writings through 2003.

  Section C lists chronologically all miscellaneous collections of Emerson's writings through 2003.

  Foreign-language editions published through 1882, the year of Emerson's death, are also listed. Included are anthologies, birthday books, and topical studies. Binding is assumed to be cloth or boards unless otherwise indicated. Locations are given for the copies examined.

  Section D lists chronologically all titles in which material by Emerson appears for' the first time in a book or pamphlet. Entries within a year are arranged alphabetically. Included are prose, poetry, and letters. All items are signed unless otherwise indicated. Previously published materials are so identified. The first printings only of these titles are described, but English editions and selected reprintings are also noted. Binding is assumed to be cloth or boards unless otherwise indicated. Locations are given for the copies examined.

  Section E lists chronologically all first American and English publications in newspapers and magazines of material by Emerson through 2003. No attempt has been made to list contemporary accounts of Emerson's lectures. All items are signed unless otherwise indicated. When applicable, the first book publication or first appearance in a book by Emerson is given. Section F lists chronologically all books edited by Emerson. Binding is assumed to be cloth or boards unless otherwise indicated.

  Locations are given for the copies examined. Section G lists, chronologically, reprinted prose and poetry by Emerson in books and pamphlets through 1882, the year of his death. Entries within a year are arranged alphabetically. Binding is assumed to be cloth or boards unless otherwise indicated. Locations are given for the copies examined.

  Section H lists chronologically material attributed to Emerson. Section I lists chronologically references to possible publications by Emerson which have not been dealt with elsewhere in the bibliography An Appendix lists principal works about Emerson published since the 1982 bibliography.

TERMS AND METHODS Edition.

  All copies of a book printed from a single setting of type - including all reprintings from standing type, from plates, or by photo-offset processes.

Printing.

  All copies of a book printed at one time (without removing the type or plates from the press). This bibliography appears at a time when Print on Demand (POD) publishing is becoming a popular means of making out of print books available. By this method, printing runs of as few as one copy may be produced. This is not a new concept: beginning in the 1970s, University Microfilms made copyflow reproductions to order of selected out¬of-print texts. Because the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography has consistently not included one-off "reprintings," titles by Emerson that are now available through POD are not included here.

State.

  States occur only within single printings and are created by an alteration not affecting the conditions of publication or sale to some copies of a given printing (usually by stop-press correction or cancellation of leaves). For instance, the second (English) issue of The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson (A 39.1.~) has been located in two states, differentiated by the cancellation of one leaf and the insertion of another with a textual change on it. There must be two or more states.

Issue.

  Issues occur only within single printings and are created by an alteration affecting the conditions of publication or sale to some copies of a given printing. The most common way of creating an issue is with a cancel title leaf, but it also possible to create an issue by printing a new first gathering with a different title page (bearing the imprint of a different publisher). There cannot be a first issue without a second.

  Edition, printing, state, and issue have here been restricted to the sheets of the book. Publisher's advertisements are described but the reader should be aware that they generally exist in three forms. First, they may be integral in the first or last gatherings of a book. In such cases, variants between the advertisements can be used to determine the printing history of the book, since the advertisements were printed in the same press run as the rest of the work. Second, advertisements may be printed on the endpapers of a book. While useful in determining when a copy may have been bound, these advertisements do not bear on a book's printing history. The third form, inserted catalogues of publisher's advertisements, may indicate only binding and not printing histories. It can be stated unequivocally that the date on the inserted advertisements in a book has no direct bearing on the priority of a printing.

  Dust jackets for Section A entries have been discussed in detail because they are part of the original publication effort and sometimes provide information on how the book was marketed. There is, of course, no certainty that a jacket now on a book was always on it.

  For binding-cloth designations, I have used the method proposed by G. Thomas Tanselle;3 most of these cloth grains are illustrated in Jacob Blanck and Michael Winship, eds., The Bibliography of American Literature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955-1991).

  Color specifications are based on the ISCC-NBS Color Name Charts Illustrated with Centroid Colors (National Bureau of Standards). Centroid numbers have not been assigned; instead, the general cloth designators have been used.

  The spines of dust jackets or bindings are printed horizontally unless otherwise indicated. The reader is to assume that vertically printed spines read from top to bottom unless otherwise indicated. In the description of title pages, bindings, and dust jackets, the color of the lettering is black unless otherwise indicated.

  Pagination for reprintings of Section A and C entries indicates the number of the last printed page of the book, exclusive of publisher's advertisements. Some items were reprinted from the plates of larger collections without a change in the pagination sequence. For these items, beginning and ending page numbers are reported. Thus 17-54 pp. indicates that the first page in this 38-page book is 17 and the last is 54; a note provides information on the plates used for the reprinting of the separate publication.

  A number of miscellaneous publications of Emerson' s writings have a publisher's imprint listing numerous geographical locations, usually cities in which the publisher had offices. In such cases, one to three cities are listed but four or more are described with a (&c) following the first city listed. A number of Emerson's works were published with cover titles. Those cover titles which are integral with the first (or only) gathering are designated a cover title. When the cover title is printed on the front wrapper, the the pamphlet is added.

  This bibliography makes use of deposit and inscribed copies to help determine publication dates. Dates given for copies at BC, BE, BL, BO, and DLC are the dates written or stamped on the copies deposited for copyright at those institutions. Dates given for copies at other collections indicate either the date the copy was received into the collection or a date written by a contemporary owner of a book.

  Many of Emerson's works were sold in series. When the series is identified in the work (such as on the title page or binding), it is italicized. When the series is not identified in the work, but can be ascertained from contemporary book trade announcements, it is placed within quotation marks. This Supplement is based on evidence gathered from my personal inspection of multiple copies of Emerson's works. For English and American editions, only libraries holding copies that are bibliographically intact (not rebound or repaired) are listed. Exceptions are rebound copies containing nonbibliographical information, such as dated owners' inscriptions, which is mentioned in notes. The symbols used for American libraries are those employed by the National Union Catalog; those for Canadian libraries are the same as those listed in Symbols of Canadian Libraries, 7th ed. (Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1977), which are here preceded by Ca; those for British libraries are the same as those listed in the British Union Catalogue of Periodicals, which are here preceded by B.

  Most of the works listed in this bibliography are based on copies of books which I have purchased over the past twenty years, and which were not seen by or reported to me when I was researching the 1982 bibliography. Generally speaking, the locations listed for copies of any book published before 1980 are the only places holding a copy or copies of that work I have been able to locate. I have not attempted to list more than one location for books published after 1980.

The following abbreviations are used to refer to editions of Emerson's letters and journals, and to an edition of his daughter Ellen's letters:

CEC The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle
ed. Joseph Slater
New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

ETE The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson
ed. Edith E. W. Gregg
2 vols., Kent: Kent State University Press, 1982.

JMN The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
ed. William H. Gilman, Ralph H. Orth
et aI., 16 vols., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960-1982.

L The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
ed. Ralph L. Rusk and Eleanor M. Tilton
10 vols., New York Columbia University Press, 1939,1990-1995.

  Page numbers to the original bibliography reference entries for which additional information is here provided or corrected; items without such references are completely new entries.

  This bibliography is not an attempt to indicate the scarcity of Emerson's works and should not be taken as such. If there is only one location listed, it means that, of all the libraries I visited and corresponded with, only one had or reported having a copy with all the examined points intact; it does not mean that there is only one copy of that work in existence.

  A bibliography is outdated the moment it goes to the printer. Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Edisto Beach, South Carolina
9 September 2004