Museum Edition 1901. Published by Gibbings & Company, London. Complete two-volume set of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays, issued as part of the early 20th-century Museum Edition series. Emerson was a leading figure of American Transcendentalism, and these volumes contain his influential philosophical essays on self-reliance, nature, individualism, and intellectual independence. Features illustrated decorative title pages and portrait frontispiece. Bound in red leather with gilt (gold) spine lettering. The leather shows noticeable age-related wear and surface loss to the spines.