Twelve volumes. (8vo) original dark tan cloth, paper spine labels. Number 428 of 600 copies of the Autograph Centenary Edition. With a leaf of manuscript in Emerson's hand in Volume 1.

The manuscript leaf reads as follows, in full: "The poem must be tenax propositi, the fable or myth must hold, or 'tis worth no man's while to read it. If a pilot swing his vessel from the wharf with one intention, &, after letting go, changes his intention, and a vessel, deceived by his first demonstration, is run afoul & injured, the pilot loses his branch. Certainly we must hold the poet to as strict a law."