The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (12 volumes)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Boston and New York, 1904

About this Item

Duodecimo [20 cm] 3/4 maroon leather with marbled paper over boards, and elaborate gilt-tooled spines. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. With printed tissue guards. The extremities are ever so lightly rubbed, and a couple of the spines are just a hair faded. Some pages uncut. A bright and fresh set. With the following titles: Nature: Addresses and Lectures; Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series; Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Second Series; Representative Men: Seven Lectures; English Traits; The Conduct of Life; Society and Solitude; Letters and Social Aims; Poems; Lectures and Biographical Sketches; Miscellanies; Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers. With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General Index. Illustrated with Photogravures. American essayist, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) achieved world renowned fame as a lecturer and the author of such essays as "Self-Reliance," "History," "The Over-Soul," and "Fate." He was a leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism. Not only did Emerson influence generations of Americans, including his friend Henry David Thoreau and John Dewey, but he also influenced Europeans, such as Friedrich Nietzsche. A beautiful set of the complete works of one of the 19th century's most influential writers and thinkers in the United States.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (12 volumes)
• Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Boston and New York
• Publication Date: 1904
• Binding: Leather Bound
• Edition: Concord Edition.
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