Ralph Waldo Emerson — Essays: First Series; Essays: Second Series

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. Leather. A complete half-morocco collection of Emerson's First and Second essays series. Complete in two volumes.   Finely bound in contemporary half red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.   The centenary edition of Emerson's earliest essays, comprised of the First Series, originally published in 1841, and the Second Series, which was released three years later. A leading thinker of the mid-nineteenth century, who spearheaded the American Transcendentalist movement, beginning with a number of the philosophical writings included in this collection, such as "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "The Poet" and "Experience". In a contemporary, red, half-morocco binding. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, as stated to the front free endpaper of each work. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, leading to the subtle beginnings of cracking along the joints, and the rare mark. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean with the occasional spot, more likely to the first and last few pages. With a wood smoke odour. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .