EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903.
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The Centenary Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Finely Bound
The Centenary edition of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, silk ribbons bound in, illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits of the author. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. A very sharp example.
When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emerson’s poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
$3,200.00
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