[Rarebooks] FS: Works of Emerson bound in full morocco with Signed Quotations by Emerson and William Lloyd Garrison

[Charles Agvent]

 From our just posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items, 
mostly new arrivals and with many autographed pieces. A direct link to 
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON 
Extra-Illustrated including an AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). Boston 
& New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1903-1904). First Edition. The 
twelve-volume Concord Edition, luxuriously bound in full green morocco 
with a gilt floral pattern with red morocco inlays on both covers and 
the spine which is also lettered in gilt with four raised bands, 
gilt-decorated red morocco inside panels, red silk endpapers, all edges 
gilt. Bound into each volume is a page with printed script that states: 
"This set of Emerson contains one original manuscript and watercolor 
illustrations. Binding specially designed." Illustrated throughout with 
black-and-white and color photogravures. Bound into the first volume is 
an AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED: "Let the river run which way it will, 
cities will rise on its banks. R. Waldo Emerson, Syracuse, 14 Feby. 
1851." On the verso is another AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED, this by 
William Lloyd Garrison: "My country is the world, my countrymen are all 
mankind." Wm. Lloyd Garrison Syracuse, May 8, 1851." All volumes have 
light to moderate wear to the joints with the spines dulled to varying 
degrees and some uneven darkening to the covers. The second volume has a 
small chip to the head of the spine. The first and last volumes show 
some old dampstaining both to the covers and the margins of the text 
with the red onlays lacking to two covers. Overall Very Good and still 
quite handsome.         $3,500.00

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