The Dial: A Magazine For Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.
First Edition.
(1840-1844) Complete Set of the 16 original parts uniformly bound in 4 volumes. 
Volume I published by Weeks, Jordan and Company, Boston.
Volume II- III: published by E.P. Peabody, Boston.
Volume IV: James Munroe and Co. 
 
8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary half-morocco with spines lettered and ruled in gilt.
 
About The Dial:
The influential Transcendentalist literary magazine, The Dial, was founded in 1840. 
Margaret Fuller edited the first eight issues of The Dial from 1840-42. Ralph Waldo Emerson edited the remaining issues from 1842-44 except for the April 1843 issue which was edited by Henry David Thoreau.
 
As Editors, Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson contributed the most content to The
Dial.  In alphabetical order, other contributors included:
 
Amos Bronson Alcott
William Ellery Channing
James Freeman Clarke
C.P. Cranch
George W. Curtis
Charles A. Dana
J.S. Dwight
Elizabeth Hoar
Frederick Henry Hedge
Ellen Hooper
Charles Lane
James Russell Lowell
Theodore Parker
Elizabeth Peabody
George Ripley, Sophia Willard Dana Ripley
Caroline Tappen
Henry David Thoreau
J. F. Tuckerman
Jones Very
Samuel G. Ward
Charles S. Wheeler
W.D. Wilson
 
These issues of The Dial contain some of the earliest printed works of Henry David Thoreau including his poem "Sympathy," which was his second-ever appearance in print (pp. 71-72 in Vol. I, No. I, signed "T"), followed by "Aulus Persius Flaccus," his third (Vol. I, pp. 117-121), "Stanzas," his fourth (Vol. I, No. III, p. 314), "Sic Vita," his fifth (Vol. II, No. I, pp. 81-82), and "Friendship," his sixth (Vol. II, No. II, pp. 204-205), and numerous others.
 
Association Copy: This set bears the bookplate of Concord-born George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) who was a U.S. Senator for Massachusetts from 1877 until his death in 1904. Hoar was descended from early Concord settler John Hoare and came from a politically influential family in 18th and 19th century New England. He was known for his stance as an abolitionist and as a leading organizer of the Republican Party. His bookplates are in each volume, and his pencil signature is on the title page of Volume I. 
 
Condition: Good+ with below noted flaws.  All volumes have some rubbing and wear to joints and edges; occasional foxing or spotting throughout. The title pages of all The Dial covers are darker than the rest of the pages (consistent with the original binding in standalone issues). Further details of each volume below:
 
Volume I: Contains pencil inscription on front fly leaf: "From the Library of Judge Hoar. Geo[orge] Frisbee Hoar 1826-1904 author of "Autobiography of Seventy Years 2v 1903". 
"G.F. Hoar" in pencil on the front page of the volume. The title page of the first issue has a small bend in the top right corner and the bent section may separate at some point. (Please see photo). Moderate foxing throughout. 
 
Volume II: Very Good Condition and binding. 
 
Volume III is complete. Pages 336-368 are supplied from another copy. The volume comes with a note from a previous bookseller explaining how they located an original single-issue of The Dial to supplement the two missing pages from the bound version of Volume III. 
 
Vol. IV: Front free endpaper and first blank flyleaf are loosening at the joint. The rest of the binding is very good.  A large stain covers the right upper side of the second free endpaper through page 2. Similar stain over pages 515 through the end of volume. (Please see photographs). 
 
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