"'Magazine Fraser' writes that 'Teufelsdröckh' excites the most unqualified disapprobation--_à la bonne heure_," said Carlyle; and again: "--Literature still all a mystery; nothing 'paying;' 'Teufelsdröckh' beyond measure unpopular; an oldest subscriber came into him and said, 'If there is any more of that d----d stuff, I will,' &c., &c.; on the other hand an order from America (Boston or Philadelphia) to send a copy of the magazine '_so long_ as there was anything of Carlyle's in it.' 'One spake up and the other spake down.'" After the work had run its course in the magazine, about fifty copies were struck off from the types and stitched together for distribution among friends. It remained to the honor of America, to print the book in 1836, through the energetic efforts of Dr. LeBaron Russell. Emerson furnished the copy and a preface; and before the end of the year he was able to announce to Carlyle the sale of the whole edition. Another edition of over a thousand copies was sold before the first English edition, "a dingy, ill-managed edition" of a thousand copies, was published anonymously by Saunders and Otley in 1838. Octavo. COLLATION: _1 l., 107 pp._ RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 80. Nature. | [Quotation] Boston: | James Munroe And Company. | MDCCCXXXVI. "My little book is nearly done. Its title is 'Nature.' Its contents will not exceed in bulk Sampson Reed's 'Growth of the Mind.' My design is to follow it by another essay, 'Spirit,' and the two shall make a decent volume." Thus Emerson wrote to his brother William, from Concord, June 28, 1836. _Nature_ was, however, published alone in September by Metcalf, Torry and Ballou of the Cambridge Press. It received little attention except from "the representatives of orthodox opinion," who violently attacked it. Only a few hundred copies were sold, and it was twelve years before a second edition was called for. Duodecimo. COLLATION: _95 pp._ WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT (1796-1859) 81. History | Of The | Conquest Of Peru, | [Three lines] By | William H. Prescott, | [Two lines] [Quotations] In Two Volumes. | Volume I. | New York: | Harper And Brothers, 82 Cliff Street. | MDCCCXLVII. George Ticknor, in his life of Prescott, gives the story of the production of the _History_ in the following words: "The composition of the 'Conquest of Peru' was, therefore, finished within the time he had set for it a year previously, and the work being put to press without delay, the printing was completed in the latter part of March, 1847; about two years and nine months from the day when he first put pen to paper. It made just a thousand pages, exclusive of the Appendix, and was stereotyped under the careful correction and supervision of his friend Mr. Folsom of Cambridge.