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- "Representative Men" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Altemus Library
- No copyright date / Published in 1896 by Henry Altemus, Philadelphia
- Handwritten dedication on header page - "Christmas 1896"
- Hardcover book (green with flower, Altemus Library edition) / 294 pages
- Includes full-page block-plate illustrated portraits in violet color ink of;
- Emanuel Swedenborg (The Mystic), Michel Eyquem Montaigne (The Skeptic), William Shakespeare (The Poet), Napoleon Bonaparte (The Man of the World), and Johann Wolfgang Goethe (The Writer).
