EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1802). The Complete Works. -- Journals. Cambridge: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1903-4, 1909-14.

22 volumes, 8vo. Titles printed in red and black, numerous engravings and photogravures. (A few leaves in the Works with tears just affecting text.) Contemporary half olive or dark brown levant gilt, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-tooled, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines lightly sunned, a touch of rubbing to joints). Provenance: William Hammatt Davis (bookplates).

LIMITED EDITION, number 175 of 600 sets of the Large Paper "Autograph Centenary Edition", signed by the publisher.

WITH AN ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY EMERSON.

[Bound in to Volume I:] EMERSON. Autograph manuscript leaf, comprising 32 lines with a few corrections in ink, presumably from part of a draft for his essay "Progress of Culture" in vol. VIII, pp. 207-234. 2 pages on one leaf, folio, window-mounted, in brown ink. (Leaf detached at fold and laid in.) The first line begins with, "We should no more complain of the obstructions which make success difficult..."

Volumes 9,11 and 12 of the Works contain several poems or essays that are either printed or collected here for the first time. BAL 5314-16, 5463; Grolier American, 47.

Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1802). The Complete Works. -- Journals. Cambridge: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1903-4, 1909-14.