41 pp. Robin's egg blue boards with silver decor and titles on front board. Black-and-white frontispiece of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson (born May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. - died April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts) was an American lecturer, poet, and essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism. - Britannica