23 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “But Truth Is Simple, And Will Not Be Antique: Is Ever Present, And Insists On Being Of This Age, And Of This Moment”: Emerson’s Illustrated Complete Works, Finely Bound With Signed Autograph Note 22. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Complete Works. WITH: Journals. Cambridge, 1903-04. Together, twenty-two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $9800. “Autograph Centenary” edition of Emerson’s Works, together with his Journals, each one of 600 copies, illustrated with 56 photogravures, with an autograph note tipped in Volume I of the Works requesting volumes by the French philosopher de Gerando. This edition includes all of Emerson’s poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Tipped into Volume I of the Works is a section of a signed autograph letter, reading, “Degerando—Ananyse Compare des Systemes de Philosophie / Degerando On Moral Perfection__ / If there by any other metaphysical [struck out] philosophical works of this writer, I should like to have them sent. R.W.E. London July 21, 18__. RW Emerson.” The date of this letter is unclear: Emerson was known to have read de Gerando in 1830—it was a significant influence on his seminal “Nature”—but did not visit London until 1833. Owner inkstamps. Spines evenly toned to brown, just a few joints lightly rubbed. A beautiful set.
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