SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE. Twelve Chapters

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The author's last great work, a collection of lectures he delivered on tour, in which he found profound insight on such seemingly prosaic topics as Art, Eloquence, Domestic Life, Books, Courage, Success, and Old Age. Small octavo: [iv], 300 pp. Original green cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titles, blind-stamped borders, and bevelled edges. Some minor shelfwear, mostly at the corners and tips; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 78613)