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11 Volumes of the Original 11 Volume Set - Conditions the same for all unless noted: Red leather 3/4 bound to spines and corners with gilt rulings between leather and marbled paper on boards. Marbled endpapers and top edges gilt. Spines have 5 well defined large raised bands with gilt tooling in resulting panels, including titling and volume information. Books are tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out, other than very minor rubbing to leather edges and corners, a chip to the spine leather on Vol. 9, and a clean break to the front cover on Vol. 1. Ex-Libris plates on all volumes of Maria DeWitt Jesup, the founder along with her husband Moris Jesup, of the strinking and beautiful Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine. This is an early printing of the New & Revised Riverside Edition. Vol. I - Nature Addresses & Lectures. Vol. II - Essays First Series; Vol. III - Essays Second Series; Vol. IV - Representative Men; Vol. V - English Traits; Vol. VI - Conduct of Life; Vol. VII - Society and Solitude; Vol. VIII - Letters and Social Aims; Vol. IX - Poems; Vol. X - Lectures and Biographical Sketches; Vol. XI - Miscellany. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul". Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world." He remains among the pillars of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist. Finally, his cousin William Ralph Emerson was a well-known architect, designing many summer houses for the well-to-do in the late 19th century, including Redwood, here in Bar Harbor, the first "shingle style" cottage in the country. Additional shipping charges likely.
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