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Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Standard Library Edition. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1894.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Standard Library Edition With a General Index and a Memoir by James Elliott Cabot Complete in Fourteen Volumes 1894. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company Riverside Press, Cambridge Hardcover. Maroon cloth covered boards with paper labels adorned with gold gilt. Top edges of pages are gilt.  This is an appreciated set that has signs of shelf wear. Books are good condition overall with varying degrees of wear to labels on spine. Heaviest wear to labels over volumes IV, IX, and X. Varying scuffs and marks to covers. Pages are crisp and clean. The bindings remain in very good condition.

Seller: Barrow Bookstore, Concord, MA, U.S.A.

Whittier, John Greenleaf. The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier [with] Life and Letters of. (Artist's Edition in 9 vols.). Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Boston and New York, 1894.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Number 440 of 750 sets. Bound by the Riverside Press in full crushed olive morocco, spines uniformly faded. Top edges gilt. Raised bands and gilt floral patterns in the spine compartments and corners. Full inner red morocco doublures (with gilt decorations) red silk end papers. Bound with an autograph letter from Whittier tipped into the first volume. Each volume with two frontispieces, one in color. A lavish production overall. Illustrated throughout with plates, portraits and photogravures by Howard Pyle, Frank T. Merrill, Frederic Remington and F.O.A.C. Darley, among others. A Fine set. In the long struggle to abolish slavery, John Greenleaf Whittier became one of the most influential voices. "A highly regarded poet of the 19th century, he was enshrined in the pantheon of 'Schoolroom Poets' along with William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson.and Oliver Wendell Holmes" (Poetry Foundation). His Quaker belief in tolerance and his friendship with activist William Lloyd Garrison combined to make both the poet and his poetry fiercely abolitionist. And indeed, in seeing the appeal of Whittier's poetry, Garrison enlisted his friend to publish on the cause's behalf and shift the tides in New England, where the abolitionist position was still unpopular. Here in a lovely binding, beautifully illustrated, are a selection of the works which made Whittier such an influential voice in his own time. Fine.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.