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    By Henry David Thoreau
    Boston   Ticknor and Fields
    7.5" by 5.5" 8-319pp
    A very smart copy of the second printing of Henry David Thoreau's collection of essays, published the year after the first printing.
    By Henry David Thoreau

    1864 Excursions

    Boston   Ticknor and Fields
    7.5" by 5.5" 8-319pp
    A very smart copy of the second printing of Henry David Thoreau's collection of essays, published the year after the first printing.
    £550.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 850F23
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    Description

    Publishers' Original Binding

    Borst A3.1.b. Only two hundred and eighty copies of this second printing were produced.

    Consisting of nine essays by Thoreau, including A Walk to Wachusett, Walking, and Natural History of Massachusetts.

    This wonderful anthology begins with an introduction entitled "Biographical Sketch" in which the author's friend, fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, provides a description of Thoreau.

    With the bookplate of noted book collector John Waern Hill to the front pastedown, and the contemporary inscription 'Lucy Field, 25 June 1866' to the front free endpaper.

    Condition

    Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding with back strip laid down and boards restored. Retaining the original endpapers. Externally, excellent. Bookplate to front pastedown. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters, with light spots and handling marks throughout.

    Very Good

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