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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson — 12 Volumes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York; The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1903
Concord Edition — Complete Twelve-Volume Set
With a biographical introduction and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson; illustrated with photogravures.
A complete, uniformly bound twelve-volume set in Very Good condition overall. All volumes have firm bindings and Fine interiors, with clean, unmarked pages. The leather shows rubbing along the joints, board edges, and corners, with scattered chipping and small areas of surface loss, particularly at the extremities. The gilt-decorated spines remain attractive and legible. Top edges gilt, with some rubbing and handling marks; the remaining page edges show light age toning.
Handsomely bound in three-quarter burgundy leather with matching marbled paper-covered boards, raised spine bands, elaborate gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, and top edges gilt. This is the complete twelve-volume Concord Edition, printed at The Riverside Press. It includes a biographical introduction and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson, a general index, and photogravure illustrations. The volumes contain Emerson’s essays, lectures, poetry, biographical writings, and philosophical works, including Nature, Essays: First Series, Essays: Second Series, Representative Men, English Traits, The Conduct of Life, and Society and Solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a central figure in American Transcendentalism and nineteenth-century literature. His writings examine individuality, self-reliance, nature, spiritual experience, and intellectual independence. The Concord Edition brings together his collected works with editorial contributions by his son, Edward Waldo Emerson. This complete, matching set is especially attractive in its richly gilt-decorated leather bindings.
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