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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
The Complete Works.
With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General Index; [with:] — Journals … 1820-1876 edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes.
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903-14
Stock code: 68598
Price: £5,950 Currency Conversion
The Works are the Autograph Centenary Edition, one of a limited edition of 600 numbered sets with a leaf of manuscript in the hand of Emerson inserted at the front of volume 1, and signed by the publisher on the limitation leaf. The Journals are the large paper edition, also limited to 600 numbered sets. A very handsomely bound set.
22 volumes, octavo. Recent green morocco, spines gilt in compartments, red and black morocco labels, marbled endpapers, ruling to boards and top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrations throughout. An excellent set.
