Holmes, Oliver Wendell. THE COMPLETE WRITINGS of OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES with Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles (Autocrat Edition in 13 Volumes). Houghton Mifflin, 1904.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: (1904) Complete 13 Volume set. Blue cloth with gold gilt. Illustrated with several full plates in black/white per volume. All but one volume in Good to Very Good condition. All: Hardcover with No Dust Jacket (as issued). Boards with shelf wear, bumped at corners and spine ends with minimal fraying. Gold gilt to top page edges, deckled fore edges. Dust soil to page edges. Pages unmarked, many uncut. Binding tight, no separations noted. Individual differences from above: Volume 5 with small chip to front board at top, and bleaching of color to bottom of spine. Vol. 8 with damp stain (water damage) to all pages from fore edge to approx. 1/2 point. Pages are still legible and boards show no such damage. Vol. 10 with slightly warped boards. Titles: The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Over The Teacups; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Pages from an Old Volume if Life; Medical Essays; One Hundred in Europe; Emerson/ Motley; And Poetical Works Vol. 1 and 2

Seller: Never Too Many Books, West Poland, ME, U.S.A.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [Twelve Volume Set] Collected Writings with Index - The Concord Edition. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1904.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo, Concord Edition. Gilt lettered dark brown morocco leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece tissue guards in each book. Illustrated with photogravures. Very clean, fine set. Appears almost unused. Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century and influenced Henry David Thoreau. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence." Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844; represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. This set contains all of this work.

Seller: Sean Fagan, Rare Books, Buford, GA, U.S.A.