THE COMPLETE WRITINGS, Edited by Thomas R. Lounsbury

15 volumes. The Autograph edition, one of 612 copies signed by Lounsbury and on behalf of the publisher. Included are a manuscript page from "In The Levant", a second manuscript page with numbering in Warner's hand and an autograph letter signed ("C. D. Warner") to Lounsbury, dated March 6, 1883. This copy also the most desirable, with plates in two states. With a hand-coloured photogravure portrait frontispiece, hand-coloured vignette title page, and other photogravures plates, 2 signed by artists Frank T. Merrill and E.H. Garret. This copy with the initial portrait in two states, both hand-coloured and uncoloured. 8vo, bound in three-quarter dark green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with raised bands gilt tooled, gilt decorated and tooled in two compartments, gilt lettered in two compartments, with the remaining large compartment elaborately decorated with gilt borders enclosing a pair of gilt floral decorations, top edges gilt. A fine and handsome set with some very light mellowing as is typical, the text-blocks and illustrations all in essentially pristine condition.

Edizione: first of the edition, with manuscript leaves and a manuscript letter. a sumptuous publication of the great american novelist, essayist and close friend of mark twain with whom he wrote the gilded age. his works are popular for their abounding and refined humor, their mellow personal charm, their wholesome love of outdoor things, their suggestive comment on life and affairs, and their delicately finished style. interestingly, warner is known for making the famous remark "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it". this was quoted by mark twain in a lecture, and is frequently misattributed to him.<br> the volumes contain the following writings and are illustrated in all volumes:<br>volume i, “my summer in a garden,” “backlog studies,” “baddeck”<br>volume ii, “saunterings”<br>volume iii, “my winter on the nile”<br>volume iv, “in the levant”<br>volume v, “a roundabout journey”<br>volume vi, “in the wilderness,” “captain john smith”<br>volume vii, “being a boy on horseback”<br>volume viii, “studies in the south and west with comments on canada”<br>volume ix, “washington irving,” “the work of washinton irivng,” our italy”<br>volume x, “their pilgrimage”<br>volume xi, “a little journey in the world”<br>volume xii, “the golden house”<br>volume xiii, “that fortune”<br>volume xiv, “as we were saying,” “as we go,” “fashions in literature”<br>volume xv, “relation of literature to life,” people for whom shakespeare wrote”