Writings of Henry David Thoreau
[Walden Edition]
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. GLEASON, Herbert W.. Full Description:
THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.
The Walden Edition. Twenty small octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 193 x 126 mm). With portrait frontispiece in volume I and photographic frontispieces by Herbert Gleason in other volumes. Each volume with an additional four photogravure images, with tissue guards.
Bound in three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper boards. Spines richly tooled in a floral design and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. . Overall, a near fine set.
"This edition is based on the Riverside Edition, with the addition of the complete Journal in fourteen volumes...[which] contain[s] many text cuts from rude sketches by Thoreau" (Allen).
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher who is best known for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism, recording his experience in his masterwork Walden (1854)...Early in the spring of 1845, Thoreau, then 27 years old, began to build a home on the shores of Walden Pond, a lake two miles south of Concord on land Emerson owned. From the outset the move gave him profound satisfaction. When not busy weeding his bean rows and trying to protect them from hungry woodchucks or occupied with fishing, swimming, or rowing, he spent long hours observing and recording the local flora and fauna, reading, writing A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), and making entries in his journals, which later he would polish and include in Walden, a series of 18 essays describing his experiment in basic living. Thoreau stayed for two years at Walden Pond" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature).
Allen pp. 52-53.
HBS 69494.
$4,000.
THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.
The Walden Edition. Twenty small octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 193 x 126 mm). With portrait frontispiece in volume I and photographic frontispieces by Herbert Gleason in other volumes. Each volume with an additional four photogravure images, with tissue guards.
Bound in three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper boards. Spines richly tooled in a floral design and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. . Overall, a near fine set.
"This edition is based on the Riverside Edition, with the addition of the complete Journal in fourteen volumes...[which] contain[s] many text cuts from rude sketches by Thoreau" (Allen).
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher who is best known for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism, recording his experience in his masterwork Walden (1854)...Early in the spring of 1845, Thoreau, then 27 years old, began to build a home on the shores of Walden Pond, a lake two miles south of Concord on land Emerson owned. From the outset the move gave him profound satisfaction. When not busy weeding his bean rows and trying to protect them from hungry woodchucks or occupied with fishing, swimming, or rowing, he spent long hours observing and recording the local flora and fauna, reading, writing A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), and making entries in his journals, which later he would polish and include in Walden, a series of 18 essays describing his experiment in basic living. Thoreau stayed for two years at Walden Pond" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature).
Allen pp. 52-53.
HBS 69494.
$4,000.
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Title
Writings of Henry David Thoreau
Author
THOREAU, Henry David
Condition
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin and Company: Boston
Date
1906