Emerson’s Complete Works.

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo .

Item Number: 122048

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1883.

The Riverside edition of the Emerson’s Complete Works. Octavo, 16 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise gilt bands, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition.

When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emerson’s poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).