468, 22 pp. Original purple cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. A collection of essays by the author of The Autocraft of the Breakfast Table, who was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, etc., and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, which he named. Interesting features include an illustration of a prosthetic leg, and an essay about stereoscopy and stereography. Includes: Bread and the Newspaper; My Hunt After 'The Captain'; The Stereoscope and the Stereograph; Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture; with a Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic; Doings of the Sunbeam; The Human Wheel, Its Spokes and Felloes; A Visit to the Autocrat's Landlady; A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters; The Great Instrument; The Inevitable Trial.
