The Maine woods / by Henry D. Thoreau, author of "A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Walden," "Excursions," etc., etc.

The Maine woods / by Henry D. Thoreau, author of "A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Walden," "Excursions," etc., etc.

[First edition].

Boston : Ticknor and Fields., 1864.

English

1 online resource (328).

Edited by Sophia E. Thoreau and William Ellery Channing.
First edition, distinguished by absence of edition statement on title verso, and inclusion of prices in the list of "Mr. Thoreau's writings" facing the title. The second printing has "Second edition" on the title verso, and omits prices in the list. See BAL, which cautions that some copies of the second printing have been seen with the edition statement scraped off.
Title page vignette (publisher's device).
"Mr. Thoreau's writings" (priced list of author's work)--facing title page; all 1.25 except A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1.50.
"Cambridge: Stereotyped and printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co."--Colophon, page 328.
Ads at front contain prive for "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers "; inserted ads dated April, 1864.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

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