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2 volumes. Both are first editions. Both are from the personal library of noted Unitarian and Cornell professor Charles Chauncey Shackford. The Conduct of Life. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1860. Hardcover. 288 pages + 16 pages of ads. First edition, Writings binding, with Emerson s Writings on the spine in gold. Ads dated Dec 1860. List of Emerson s writings on the page opposite the title page include The Conduct of Life as nearly ready and show it as having 7 sections (as opposed to the 9 chapters that the book is actually divided in to). Brown cloth with blindstamped decorations. Top 2 inches of spine are damaged; a piece of the spine-strip has com detached from the front cover and flaps open now, revealing folded sewn pages beneath. A small triangle of cloth is missing at the crown of the spine, even when the spine-strip is put in place. White smudge on the front cover. Small strip of paper tipped in at the front on which is written from the author. Unclear, as always with this style of signature, whether it is in Emerson s hand or merely on his behalf (perhaps by the publisher). Signed on the first blank page C.C. Shackford. Nature, Addresses, and Lectures. Boston and Cambridge. James Munroe and Company. 1849. Hardcover. 383 pages + 8 pages of ads dated Sept 1849. Brown cloth with blindstamped decorations. The entire spine-strip is missing, except for a 3 inch remnant with the word Emerson stamped in gold, which is tucked inside. A few pencil lines in the margins of the essay Transcendentalism and The Young American. The name C.C. Shackford written on the first blank page. First printing. Binding A . Both copies belonged to C.C. Shackford. Charles Chauncey Shackford (1815-1891). Born in Portsmouth N.H. Attended Harvard, where he was the first scholar of 1835. He went to the Theological Seminary at Andover. In 1841, he was ordained at Hawes Place Church in Boston in June 1841. At his ordination, Rev. Theodore Parker delivered his famous transcendental address, The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity. Parker s address is considered, along with Emerson s speech to the graduates at Harvard Divinity in 1838, one of the founding treatises of the Transcendental movement. After ordination, Shackford went to Iowa for a few difficult years (his business burned down, two brothers and his wife died (unrelated to the fire)). He returned to Massachusetts (Lynn) to preach and teach at the Unitarian Society. Taught at Cornell from 1871-1886. Retired to Norfolk MA and died in 1891. The connection between Shackford and Emerson may only have been that of devotee and teacher, although it is clear and certain that they knew each other. Emerson was 12 years older. Shackford is unlikely to have attended Emerson s 1838 lecture at Harvard Divinity and Emerson is unlikely to have been at Parker s lecture at Shackford s ordination in 1841, though they were both in the vicinity & both were significant addresses in American Transcendentalism so they were certainly in the same circles at that time. In 1865, Emerson lectured twice in Lynn, MA & it was Shackford who sent him his fee ($50) along with a letter of thanks. Peter Harrington Books has a copy of one of Emerson s book inscribed to Shackford, dated 1867. Please email with questions or to request photos. Yes, I would sell them individually, but am offering them here together. N° de ref. del artículo R-131
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