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[Henry David Thoreau, contributor]. The Dial: A Magazine For Literature, Philosophy, and Religion. Boston: Weeks, Jordan... (Total: 4 Items)
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[Henry David Thoreau, contributor]. The Dial: A Magazine For Literature, Philosophy, and Religion. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Company (Vol. I); E. P. Peabody (Vol. II-III); and James Munroe and Co., 1844 (Vol. IV), 1840-44.16 parts in 4 volumes (complete: Vol. I, No. 1 July, 1840 - Vol. IV, No. IV, April, 1844), 8vo. General title-page to each volume. Uniformly bound in 19th-century brown half morocco, spines lettered and ruled in gilt.
FIRST EDITON. CONTAINING SOME OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED APPEARANCES OF THOREAU. The influential Transcendentalist literary magazine, The Dial, was founded in 1840. Margaret Fuller edited the first eight issues, after which Ralph Waldo Emerson took over and edited the subsequent eight issues until the magazine ceased publication in 1844.
A complete run of the principal publication of the Transcendental Movement, featuring some of the earliest printed appearances of Henry David Thoreau. His poem "Sympathy," only his second-ever appearance in print (pp. 71-72 in Vol. I, No. I, signed "T"), followed by "Aulus Persius Flaccus," his third (Vol. I, pp. 117-121), "Stanzas," his fourth (Vol. I, No. III, p. 314), "Sic Vita," his fifth (Vol. II, No. I, pp. 81-82), and "Friendship," his sixth (Vol. II, No. II, pp. 204-205), and numerous others. These were only preceded by an unsigned obituary he wrote for the Yeoman's Gazette, published on November 25, 1837. Notable contributors by others include James Russell Lowell, Theodore Parker, and Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. Complete copies of The Dial are rare.
Condition: Some rubbing and wear to joints and edges; occasional foxing or spotting; two leaves (pp. 366-368) in Vol. III supplied from another copy; Vol. IV with some heavier staining at ends.
References: For Thoreau contributions see: Borst D2-18, D20-27, D30-35.
Provenance: George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904), U.S. Senator for Massachusetts from 1877 until his death in 1904, he belonged to a politically influential family in 18th- and 19th-century New England. He was known for his stance as an abolitionist and as a leading organizer of the Republican Party (bookplates and pencil signature on title of first part in Vol. I); purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 12 August 1965. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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