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CHAPMAN, JOHN JAY. Emerson and Other Essays. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. 1st ed. 12mo. 247 pp. Orig. cloth, some fading. $100.00

 

Important essays on Emerson and Whitman, along with English authors Browning and Stevenson, and classical works. Chapman's first book. Owen Wister quoted William James statement from 1903 that nothing had so helped him in writing an essay on Emerson that Chapman's essay. Seven Gables Bookshop, More First Books by American Authors (1972), 55.