EMERSON RALPH WALDO Works The Autograph Centenary Edition

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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Works . . . The Autograph Centenary Edition, with Journals. The Large Paper Edition. Together, 22 volumes. Photogravure frontispieces and plates on India paper with lettered tissue guards. Large 8vo, uniform royal blue morocco with turn-ins, raised bands, and gilt lettering and device in spine compartments, all edges trimmed and gilt, scattered minor occasional chipping to heads of spine, few scuffs, spines with light but uniform fading. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903-14

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number 39 of 600 sets; works is signed by the publisher with an original manuscript leaf by emerson inlaid to size in Volume 1. This fragment contains nine lines with corrections and reads: ". . . [nations?] of the chimpanzee. We no longer measure by miles but by orbits of Neptune. Our 6000 years is a kitchen clock, no more a measure of time than an hour glass or an egg glass, since the span of geologic periods have come in use." BAL 5463 and 5318.