Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1893). Walden Edition. Hardcover. Large, personal bookplate on each front pastedown; minor spots of rubbing. Near Fine and attractive on the shelf. Ten 5" x 7-3/4" volumes bound in publisher's 3/4 green morocco leather and marbled boards with heavy gilt spine decoration and lettering, top edges gilt. Illustrated with portraits of Thoreau and photogravures by Herbert Gleason of scenes and objects described in the works. This Walden edition, an early but not first printing, is based on the Riverside edition of 1893 and printed from the same plates as the Manuscript Edition. It was first published in six volumes without the JOURNALS which were added later. This set has the first four of the fourteen volumes of the JOURNALS and all of Thoreau's published work.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 021393
Title: THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU [WORKS]
Author: THOREAU, Henry David
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Large, personal bookplate on each front pastedown; minor spots of rubbing. Near Fine and attractive on the shelf
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Walden Edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston & New York
Date Published: (1893)
Keywords: Fine Bindings, Henry David Thoreau, 19th Century Literature, Sets, Natural History, 19th Century American Literature
Bookseller catalogs: 19th Century American Literature; 19th Century Literature; Fine Bindings;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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