"The first eight volumes of the present edition of Mr. Emerson's writings contain his collected Essays as he left them ... The ninth volume comprises of the pieces chosen by Mr. Emerson from the 'Poems' and 'May-Day' to form the 'Selected Poems', with the addition of some poems which were omitted in that selection, and some that have remained unpublished ... The tenth and eleventh volumes consist of lectures hitherto unprinted, and of 'Occasional Addresses' and other prose-writings which appeared separately in periodicals."--Note signed, J.E. Cabot Edited by J.E. Cabot "Trade edition"--BAL 5414 "A twelfth volume was added in 1893"--BAL 5414 Half-title; each vol. has also special t. p Vols. 1 and 7 lack half-title BAL v. 1. Nature, addresses and lectures -- v. 2. Essays. 1st series -- v. 3. Essays. 2d series -- v. 4. Representative men -- v. 5. English traits -- v. 6. Conduct of life -- v. 7. Society and solitude -- v. 8. Letters and social aims -- v. 9. Poems -- v. 10. Lectures and biographical sketches -- v. 11. Miscellanies -- v. 12. Natural history of intellect, and other papers, with a general index