Blue diaper-grain cloth. No decoration on front and back. Gold stamping on spine. Blue coated endpapers. Top gilt.
Standard library ed. Book is volume XII of Emerson's complete work series. Book contents: Natural history of intellect -- Memory -- Boston -- Michael Angelo -- Milton -- Papers from the Dial: Thoughts on modern literature, Walter Savage Landor, Prayers, Agriculture of Massachusetts, Europe and European books, Past and present, A letter, The tragic. Book topics: Boston (Mass.); Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Milton, John, 1608-1674.