Books and Manuscripts

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, for Houghton Mifflin, 1903-04. In 12 volumes. Autograph Centenary Edition, #324/600 copies signed by the publisher, and with an autograph manuscript leaf by Emerson bound in first volume, containing lines from Concord Walks: "Make a calendar, your own, of the year, that you may never miss your favorites in their month, whether birds, or flowers, or stars. As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so shall you of all the objects that guide your walks." (printed on p. 174 in Vol. XII, Natural History of Intellect...). Title-pages printed in red and in black. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece in each volume, and numerous photogravures throughout set. Publisher's deluxe three-quarter brown niger over brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; some volumes partially unopened; autograph leaf separating along center fold. Myerson B19

A handsome set of Emerson's complete works.