The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General Index
Centenary Edition
(1904) Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA.
 
Note: Edited by Emerson's son Edward, the 1904 Centenary edition includes more material than previously printed complete sets of Emerson's works published in the late 19th century.
 
12 Volumes Complete Set.
12mo (8" x5.5")
Hardcover, Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Tops of the pages are gilt. Rough cut page edges.
 
Very Good Condition.
Previously owned by a Cornell University Professor of Romance Languages, this set has a few pencil markings in select volumes. Otherwise, in Very Good Condition with light signs of shelf wear, and some rubbed spots to the top of the gold gilt pages.
 
12 Volumes Complete, this Centenary Edition includes:
Nature, Addresses & Lectures
Essays I
Essays II
Representative Men
English Traits
Conduct of Life
Society and Solitude
Letters and Social Aims
Poems
Lectures and Biographical Sketches
Miscellanies
Natural History of the Intellect and Other Papers