Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Complete Works.  Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1903–04



12 volumes, in 8s (8½  x 5½  in.; 215 x 140 mm).  Titles printed in red and black, photogravure frontispieces and plates on india paper mounted.  Modern full red morocco, spines gilt in 6 compartments, edges gilt, marbled endleaves.

Copy 395 of 600 sets of the Autograph Centenary Edition, with a six line manuscript note by Emerson bound in as issued.  The note reads "Sir Robert Wilson says 'Buonaparte knows that every Frenchman is a soldier in six weeks, — an advantage not appertaining to any other ['country' scored through] state.'"