[Signed] The Writings and Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson...

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [and] Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1820-1872). Cambridge: Printed at The Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903-1914. Edition: Autograph Centenary Edition (Works) & Large Paper Edition (Journals). Limitation: Uniformly limited Large Paper formats, numbered across both series (this set matching in limitation number 79 of 600 copies). Original Manuscript: Features an original two-page manuscript leaf in Emerson's own hand bound in volume one. Format: 22 volumes, complete (12 volumes of The Complete Works + 10 volumes of the Journals). Large octavo / Large Paper format. Binding & Physical Description Binding: Bound in deluxe three-quarter rich dark brown/green morocco (crushed levant leather) over green and cream marbled paper-covered boards, matching marbled endpapers. Internally bright and clean, without marks and no foxing. Spines richly decorated with five raised bands, six compartments elaborately tooled with intricate floral gilt scrollwork within blind-ruled borders, direct gilt-lettered titles, and volume numbers/year spans. Top edges bright gilt; fore and bottom edges untrimmed/deckled as issued on fine heavy laid paper with wide margins. Original Emerson manuscript leaf in Vol. I; complete with photogravure frontispieces with captioned tissue guards, full-page portraits, scenic plates, and numerous in-text facsimile manuscript leaves, sketches, and marginal notes throughout the Journals. Contents Breakdown The Complete Works (Volumes I-XII): Comprising Nature, Addresses and Lectures; Essays: First & Second Series; Representative Men; English Traits; The Conduct of Life; Society and Solitude; Letters and Social Aims; Poems; Lectures and Biographical Sketches; Miscellanies; and Natural History of Intellect. The Journals (Volumes XIII-XXII / I-X): Covering the complete chronological span from Emerson's undergraduate days at Harvard in 1820 to 1872, edited by his son, Edward Waldo Emerson, and grandson, Waldo Emerson Forbes. A magnificent, uniform 22-volume presentation bringing together Emerson's definitive published canon alongside his complete private journals. While The Complete Works encapsulates the cornerstone philosophy of American Transcendentalism, individualism, and early literary independence, the Journals provide the intellectual workshop where these ideas were first conceived. Distinguished by the inclusion of an original manuscript leaf in Volume I and produced during the pinnacle of American fine press publishing at The Riverside Press, this matching 22-volume set represents the most complete, luxurious, and authoritative library edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson ever assembled. Publishers Fine Leather Binding Autograph Centenary Edition of the Writings and Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson Limited to 600 Signed and Numbered Copies of Which This Is No.79.

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