The Complete Works … With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson … [with] The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Published by Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1914

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The Autograph Centenary Edition of The Works; Large Paper Edition of Journals. ONE OF 600 SETS (no. 175 of Works; Vol. 1 of Journals No. 175, others No. 119). Title-pages and half-titles printed in red and black, each volume with engraved or photogravure frontispiece amd title-page vignette all on India paper mounted, numerous engraved or photogravure illustrations on India paper mounted. Manuscript leaf in volume 1. 22 vols. 8vo. The manuscript leaf is from Emerson's Poetry and Imagination (1836), citing William Godwin's The Life of Chaucer: ".only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds; for the moment I sing it, my chains fall in pieces, & I walk forth at liberty. I know a song, useful to all mankind for as soon as hatred inflames the sons of men, when I sing it, they are appeased. I know.". BAL 5314-16, 5463 (Works); BAL 5318-21, 5323, 6324-5326-29 (Journals) Full brown morocco gilt, watered silk endheets, turn-ins gilt, t.e.g. Spines slightly faded. Fine Title-pages and half-titles printed in red and black, each volume with engraved or photogravure frontispiece amd title-page vignette all on India paper mounted, numerous engraved or photogravure illustrations on India paper mounted. Manuscript leaf in volume 1. 22 vols. 8vo The Autograph Centenary Edition of The Works; Large Paper Edition of Journals. ONE OF 600 SETS (no. 175 of Works; Vol. 1 of Journals No. 175, others No. 119).

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• Title: The Complete Works … With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson … [with] The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872
• Publisher: Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Publication Date: 1914
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