Author: THOREAU, Henry David
Title: Excursions
Description: Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only 1500 were bound. Ten pieces are contained within, including a Biographical Sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous "Walking." Early owner name of Edward L. Temple on the front blank and the early bookplate of the Rutland High School on the front pastedown. One signature pulled, scattered foxing and staining. Covers lightly soiled with minor wear to the spine, gilt bright. Very Good .

Keywords: Transcendentalists, 19th Century Literature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Americana Environmental LIterature Henry David Thoreau Literature: American Transcendentalism


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