THE STUDENT'S DREAM. Published for the Author

Chicago: Jansen, 1881. Very small quarto (signatures stapled in fours), pp. [1-4] 5-97 [98-100: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], text printed on rectos only, double flyleaves at front, original bevel-edged decorated brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, brown coated endpapers. First edition. Presentation copy with inscription by "the author" on second flyleaf. Metaphysical speculation presented in the form of a dream set fifty years in the future in which the student, now a "doctor of philosophy," discusses the "Theory of the Universe" with a small town farmer in Indiana. A philosophical tract complete with long "appendix;" not fiction. Wright (III) 4187. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, else a bright, near fine copy. An uncommon book. (#95574) (Inventory #: 95574)